meu
Portuguese, determiner
meu is spelled M-E-U (3 letters) and appears 1,905 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 47th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meu is a Portuguese determiner meaning “my (belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of me)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Meu is a different word: “Honorific alternative letter-case form of meu, sometimes used when…”.
What does meu mean in English?
determiner
- 1
my (belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of me)
O meu computador deu tela azul.
pronoun
- 1
mine (used predicatively)
A casa em si é minha, mas o terreno não é.
- 2
mine (used absolutely, set off from the sentence)
Minha por só uma semana, a caneta-tinteiro já parece um velho amigo.
noun
- 1
masculinemine (used substantively, with an implied noun)
Não tenho muito, mas o meu é suficiente para se viver.
interjection
- 1
BrazilPortugalslanghey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
- 2
Brazilslangwhoa (used to express surprise)
- 3
Portugalslangdude
determiner
- 1
Honorific alternative letter-case form of meu, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
pronoun
- 1
Same as entry above.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. de posse da primeira pessoa do singular (eu); pertencente a mim
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of meu
- minha feminine
- meus masculine plural
- minhas feminine plural
- mou alternative
- miou alternative
- mei alternative
- meo alternative
- meu! canonical
- Meus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to meu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is meu in Portuguese?
meu appears 1,905 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).