tenho
Portuguese, verb/ˈtẽ.ɲu/
tenho is a Portuguese verb meaning “first-person singular present indicative of ter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter”.
What does tenho mean in English?
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of ter
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter
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 do you pronounce tenho?
- Brazil /ˈtẽ.ɲu/
- Brazil [ˈtẽ.j̃u]
- Portugal /ˈtɐ(j).ɲu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tenho in Portuguese?
tenho appears 1,000 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).