nas
Portuguese, pronoun/nas/
nas is spelled N-A-S (3 letters) and appears 1,175 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 77th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nas is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “alternative form of as (third-person feminine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does nas mean in English?
contraction
- 1
femininecontraction of em + as, literally “in the”: feminine plural of no
pronoun
- 1
alternative form of as (third-person feminine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel or diphthong
Façam-nas.
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 feminino plural as
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.
How do you pronounce nas?
- Brazil /nas/
- /naʃ/
- Portugal /nɐʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nas in Portuguese?
nas appears 1,175 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).