os
Portuguese, pronoun
os is spelled O-S (2 letters) and appears 7,413 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Os is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “third-person plural direct objective personal pronoun; them” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a masculine plural of o. With an accent, ós is a different word: “plural of ó”. With an accent, ôs is a different word: “plural of ô”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “usado junto às formas verbais indicando complemento verbal objeto direto”.
What does os mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
third-person plural direct objective personal pronoun; them
Encontrei-os na rua.
article
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of o
noun
- 1
masculineplural of o
suffix
- 1
masculineplural of -o
suffix
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of -o
noun
- 1
masculineplural of ó
noun
- 1
plural of ô
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
article: 1. usado para apontar um nome definido, único
pronoun: 1. usado junto às formas verbais indicando complemento verbal objeto direto
contraction: 1. contração arcaica da preposição a com o artigo definido os ou com o pronome demonstrativo os; aos
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 os
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is os in Portuguese?
os appears 7,413 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).