nos
Portuguese, pronoun
nos is spelled N-O-S (3 letters) and appears 2,089 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 43rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nos is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “alternative form of os (third-person masculine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an inflection of nós. With an accent, nós is a different word: “first-person plural nominative personal pronoun: we”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “a nós”.
What does nos mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of em + os, literally “in the”: masculine plural of no
pronoun
- 1
alternative form of os (third-person masculine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel or diphthong
Tirem-nos daqui agora!
pronoun
- 1
inflection of nós
Ele dir-nos-ia o nome do indivíduo.
- 2
accusative
- 3
dative
pronoun
- 1
femininemasculinefirst-person plural nominative personal pronoun: we
- 2
femininemasculinefirst-person plural prepositional pronoun: us
- 3
Brazilcolloquialfemininemasculineproscribedfirst-person plural objective personal pronoun; us
noun
- 1
masculineplural of nó
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. um grupo de pessoas, incluindo a si mesmo 2. plural majestático; especialmente em trabalhos acadêmicos, pode ser usado como plural de modéstia, equivalendo nesse caso à primeira pessoa do singular eu
pronoun: 1. a nós
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 nos
- nos alternative obsolete
- nòs alternative obsolete
- nóis alternative Brazil pronunciation-spelling
- mos alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to nos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nos in Portuguese?
nos appears 2,089 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).