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te

Portuguese, pronoun

te is spelled T-E (2 letters) and appears 1,549 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 60th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Te is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “you (singular), thee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, té is a different word: “potato”. With a capital, Te is a different word: “Honorific alternative letter-case form of te, sometimes used when…”. With an accent, tê is a different word: “The name of the Latin script letter T/t”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “a ti”.

What does te mean in English?

pronoun

  1. 1

    you (singular), thee

    Vem comigo; levar-te-ei a casa. (formal) Vem comigo, vou te levar pra casa. (informal)

  2. 2

    particle of spontaneity, when it indicates that there was spontaneity in the action by its agent.

    Vais-te muito cedo.

noun

as té
  1. 1

    femininepotato

pronoun

as Te
  1. 1

    Honorific alternative letter-case form of te, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

noun

as tê
  1. 1

    masculineThe name of the Latin script letter T/t.

verb

as tê
  1. 1

    apocopic form of ter; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las

  2. 2

    eye dialect spelling of ter, representing Brazil Portuguese

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

pronoun: 1. a ti 2. para ti

noun: 1. nome da vigésima letra do alfabeto latino, representada pelos símbolos "t", "T"

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 te

  • tés plural
  • tês plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to te

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is te in Portuguese?

te appears 1,549 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).

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