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

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