Masculine
🧑‍🤝‍🧑

gens

Sentences
An user
Les   gens
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
   ne
🚫
   sont   pas   nombreux .

There aren't many people.

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An user
Les   gens
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
   viendront .

People will come.

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An user
Ne
🚫
   parlez   pas   aux   gens
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
   dans   les   magasins .

Don't talk to people in stores.

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An user
Il
👨
   faisait   partie   des   gens
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
   qui   ont   jeté   les   bases   du   mouvement   national .

He was one of the people who laid the foundations of the national movement.

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An user
La   majorité   des   gens
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
   sont   des   agriculteurs .

The majority of people are farmers.

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An user
Ce   vaudeville   décrit   les   déboires   des   deux
2
   jeunes gens  plutôt  naïfs .

This vaudeville describes the setbacks of the two rather naive young people.

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Meaning

set of people

Concepts

people
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
masses
folk
hoi polloi
nation
gens
men

the great unwashed

populace
person
🧑‍🦱
manpower
mariner
mass
multitude
name
old salt
populate
sea dog
seafarer
seaman
servant
tar
workforce
work force

assortment of people

coloured people

humble person

Jack-tar

People

general public
cats
volk

common people

crowd
domestic
folk music
folks
gob
guys
hands
Jack
Synonyms

peuple
A2
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
remplir
B2
tribu
B2
lignée
C1
hommes
A1
peuplade
personnes
A1
peupler
foule
B2
race
B2
on
A1
1️⃣
nom
A1
personne
A1
🧑‍🦱
plèbe
45k
population
B2
valet
C1

main d’œuvre

main-d’œuvre

Jack

Dhakhan

actif
C1
monde
A1
🗺️
âne
C1
🫏
caisse
B1
📦
cric
24k
gars
A1
goudron
C2

jack

marin
B2
masse
B2
matelot
C2
monde
A1
🗺️
Translations

gente
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
Leute
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
gente
gent
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
gente
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
mensen
volk
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
lui
pueblo
🏙️

κόσμος

populus
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
lieden
pessoas
povo
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʒɑ̃/
Etymology

Inherited from Old French
gent
In summary

From an earlier gents, from the plural of Old French gent, genz, from gentem, accusative of gēns.

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