na
Portuguese, pronoun
na is spelled N-A (2 letters) and appears 7,943 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Na is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “alternative form of a (third-person feminine singular objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ná is a different word: “eye dialect spelling of não”. With a tilde, nã is a different word: “eye dialect spelling of não”.
What does na mean in English?
contraction
- 1
femininecontraction of em + a, literally “in the”: feminine singular of no
pronoun
- 1
alternative form of a (third-person feminine singular objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel or diphthong
interjection
- 1
eye dialect spelling of não
interjection
- 1
eye dialect spelling of não
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. contração da preposição em com o artigo definido a: 2. contração da preposição em com o pronome demonstrativo a:
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.
English words that translate to na
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is na in Portuguese?
na appears 7,943 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).