a gente
التعريفات والمعاني
== Portuguese ==
=== Alternative forms ===
arrente (eye dialect, Northeast Brazil)
a gênti (eye dialect, Brazil)
a gentchi (eye dialect, Brazil)
=== Pronunciation ===
Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽti, -ẽt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ẽtɨ
Homophone: agente
=== Pronoun ===
a gente
(colloquial) we (first-person plural personal pronoun, conjugated in the third person)
Synonym: nós
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see a, gente.
==== Usage notes ====
Takes third-person singular conjugation.
Unlike other subject pronouns, including você, a gente may not ever be dropped in a sentence.
==== Quotations ====
For quotations using this term, see Citations:a gente.
=== See also ===
=== Further reading ===
“a gente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026