Gente/a gente

Gente means ‘people’ and it may correspond to pessoas. It takes a verb in

the third person singular:

Aonde vai aquela gente toda?

Where are all those people going?

O café estava cheio de gente.

The café was full of people.

A gente may be used in the sense of nós in very colloquial speech. It is

followed by a verb in the third person singular:B

– Aonde é que vocês vão?

Where are you going?

– A gente vai ao cinema. (Nós vamos ao cinema.)

We’re going to the cinema