Learn Italian: C'è molta gente in aprile e maggio. - There are a lot of people in April and May.

C'è molta gente in aprile e maggio.

There are a lot of people in April and May.

Breakdown of C'è molta gente in aprile e maggio.

Questions & Answers about C'è molta gente in aprile e maggio.

Why does the Italian sentence use c'è (there is) when the English translation says "there are"?

In Italian, the word for people, gente, is a singular feminine noun (think of it like "a crowd"). Because it is grammatically singular, you must use c'è (there is) instead of the plural ci sono (there are).

Why is it molta instead of molto?

The word molto changes its ending to match the noun it describes. Since gente is a feminine singular noun, molto changes to its feminine singular form, molta.

Why aren't the months aprile and maggio capitalized?

Unlike in English, months of the year and days of the week are not capitalized in Italian unless they appear at the very beginning of a sentence.

Is in the only word I can use to say "in" a certain month?

For months of the year, you can use either in or a. Both are perfectly correct, so you could also say ad aprile e a maggio (we add the letter "d" to a before aprile because it starts with a vowel).