tá
Portuguese, verb
tá is spelled T-Á (2 letters) and appears 115 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 847th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tá is a Portuguese verb meaning “clipping of está” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of tar. Without its accent, ta is a different word: “contraction of te + a, literally “her/it to you (familiar singular)”…”.
What does tá mean in English?
verb
- 1
clipping of está
Cê tá falando com quem?
- 2
Brazileye dialect spelling of estar
Eu queria tá com você.
interjection
- 1
BrazilcolloquialOK; all right
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
contraction
- 1
femininecontraction of te + a, literally “her/it to you (familiar singular)”: feminine of to
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. contração do pronome pessoal te com o pronome pessoal ou demonstrativo a
interjection: 1. expressa concordância 2. expressa o desejo que o interlocutor responda ou interlocutores respondam se se está em concordância, se há entendimento 3. expressa que se está num estado ponderado e que se segue um raciocínio circunstancial 4. expressa de modo afirmativo resposta positiva
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 tá
- 'tá alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tá
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tá in Portuguese?
tá appears 115 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).