Noun: gente
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | gente |
| Plural f | gentes |
Sample Sentences
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Tinha uma gente esperando na porta. (There were some people waiting at the door.)
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A gloriosa história da gente portuguesa. (The glorious history of the Portuguese people.)
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Gente, preciso de ajuda. (Guys, I need help.)
Nouns inflected like gente
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese gente, from Latin gentem, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tim. See: Latin Nouns '
gēns'.
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