tu
Portuguese, pronoun
tu is spelled T-U (2 letters) and appears 380 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 240th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tu is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “second-person singular prepositional pronoun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tu is a different word: “Honorific alternative letter-case form of tu, sometimes used when…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pronome pessoal do caso reto da segunda pessoa do singular; usado por um interlocutor para indicar aquele com…”.
What does tu mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
archaicinformalyou; thou (singular second person pronoun)
- 2
Brazilcolloquialproscribedsecond-person singular prepositional pronoun
Ela gosta de tu.
interjection
- 1
the sound produced by a telephone after one of the callers hangs up
pronoun
- 1
Honorific alternative letter-case form of tu, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. expressa sonoridade produzido por telefone indicativo de que o aparelho telefonado foi posto no gancho ou que a linha caiu
pronoun: 1. pronome pessoal do caso reto da segunda pessoa do singular; usado por um interlocutor para indicar aquele com o qual se fala
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 tu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tu in Portuguese?
tu appears 380 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).