What is the difference between personas and gente

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You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience and the correct functioning of our store. Necessary Necessary. Non Necessary non-necessary. Read more comments. Catalan Spanish Spain. No creo que haya una diferencia, se puede decir de las dos maneras. See a translation. You can use "personas" not gente to count, for example: 1 persona 1 person 2 personas 2 people 3 personas 3 people 4 personas 4 people Gente is always singular beacuse it's an uncountable noun.

However you can see "gentes" in books or novels but not in common conversations so I recommend that you just say gente. Highly-rated answerer. I mean, sometimes I can use both of these words. Spanish Mexico. Miguel explains it better below. But I'll give it a shot. You can use 'Gentes' the same way as you would use 'Peoples' in English, 'Peoples' is not the same as 'Persons', they describe different things. And using 'squad' as an example doesn't really work, since a squad is a singular entity, composed of many units, but it remains a single thing.

People is a plurality of entities by itself. If you want to say 'a people', then you're already using another definition of the word, one that can be pluralized. Same deal in Spanish. Show 6 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. I hope this helps! Improve this answer. Miguel Miguel 1, 1 1 gold badge 15 15 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Telaclavo It was never my intention to make it seem like that sentence was incorrect. I reorganized the answer a bit and I think it's cleared things up.

Anyways, feel free to edit it more if you still don't think it's clear enough. Miguel I said it because there was an "X" just before the sentence, and thought that it could mislead someone. Good answer. Add a comment. Gente is called a "collective" noun, for "people," in general. Tom Au Tom Au 2, 6 6 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges.

Roberto Roberto 1 1 1 bronze badge. Geoff Zoref Geoff Zoref 1. I happen to speak French, so the differences are obvious to me. In English, we use the word people for different meanings: Few people individuals or persons came to my party.

In Spanish I would use personas. People in general, humans like ice cream. In Spanish, I would use gentes. The people of a nation voted for independence.