você
Portuguese, pronoun/voˈse/
você is spelled V-O-C-Ê (4 letters) and appears 3,162 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 31st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Você is a Portuguese feminine pronoun meaning “second-person singular personal pronoun, formal or informal in Brazil, formal or semi-formal in Portugal; you” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquele a quem se fala ou escreve”.
What does você mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
femininemasculinesecond-person singular personal pronoun, formal or informal in Brazil, formal or semi-formal in Portugal; you
- 2
femininemasculineindefinite pronoun; you, one
Você pode levar um cavalo até a água, mas não pode fazê-lo beber.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. aquele a quem se fala ou escreve 2. pessoa não especificada; alguém
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 você
- vocês plural
- vossa mercê alternative archaic
- vossemecê alternative archaic
- vosmecê alternative archaic
- voncê alternative
- vossuncê alternative
- vassuncê alternative
- vancê alternative
- vacê alternative
- mecê alternative
- suncê alternative
- sossemecê alternative obsolete
- ocê alternative
- cê alternative Brazil informal
- 'cê alternative Brazil informal
- vc alternative Brazil Internet
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce você?
- Brazil /voˈse/
- Portugal /vɔˈse/
- Portugal /bɔˈse/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is você in Portuguese?
você appears 3,162 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).