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tales

Portuguese, verb

tales is a Portuguese verb meaning “second-person singular present subjunctive of talar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo talar”.

What does tales mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    second-person singular present subjunctive of talar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo talar

noun: 1. prenome masculino

noun: 1. plural de Tales

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 common is tales in Portuguese?

tales appears 1.9 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).