teu
Portuguese, determiner
teu is spelled T-E-U (3 letters) and appears 166 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 582nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Teu is a Portuguese determiner meaning “your (singular) (belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of you)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Teu is a different word: “Honorific alternative letter-case form of teu, sometimes used when…”.
What does teu mean in English?
determiner
- 1
your (singular) (belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of you)
O teu computador deu tela azul.
- 2
Brazilarchaicthine, thy (belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of thee)
pronoun
- 1
yours (singular) (that or those belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of you)
A casa em si é tua, mas o terreno é meu.
- 2
Brazilarchaicthine (that or those belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of thee)
noun
- 1
masculineyours; thine (used substantively, with an implied noun)
Defende o teu, que eu trato do meu
interjection
- 1
slanghey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
- 2
slangdude, mate
determiner
- 1
Honorific alternative letter-case form of teu, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
pronoun
- 1
Same as entry above.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. de posse da segunda pessoa do singular (tu)
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 teu
- tua feminine
- teus masculine plural
- tuas feminine plural
- teu! canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to teu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is teu in Portuguese?
teu appears 166 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).