"В этом городе живёт много людей."

Translation: There are many people living in this city.

[epk-let]

It's interesting to me that the singular verb "живёт" in this sentence seems not to agree with the plural noun "люди". I guess this is because it's actually agreeing with "много" in the sense of "a lot", which is technically singular?

[olimo]

You're right!

[DukeMcFister]

Why "людей" and not "люди"?

[hevelebalazs]

Because много has to be followed by genitive case.

[FHqXhJ]

Duo accepts люди, as well.

[Haggra]

It might help to think of it as "a lot of people".

[Jason923700]

"Lots of people live in this city" marked as incorrect??

[KScottCap]

Wrote that verbatim as well. I think it should be colloquially acceptable unless there's a grammatical reason why it's wrong.

[Dugy44]

What is wrong with: In this city live many people. ??

[brFVUUDS]

Why not "В этом городе живут много людей."?

[bleedingorange]

It's живёт here, and in the sentence "такие люди всегда хотят жить хорошо" , it's хотят. So does много make "people" singular?

[DoganAkarsu]

why cannot we say "этой" instead of "этом" here? I mean I saw some examples we say "этой" in prepositional case.

[AndroidKanada]

Because этой is feminine whereas этом is masculine, which matches город.

[eduardohvb]

Thanks you helped me a lot

[Inge445646]

Почему "живёт много людей" и не "живут много людей"?

[Hitoshi195642]

Is "In this city, live many people." acceptable? It has the same word order and pretty much the same meaning.

[AndroidKanada]

Drop the comma and it would be acceptable English, though dated or poetic.

[Xeniolum]

There are many people live in this city — not accepted but has the same meaning as the "right" answer.

[JindraBrom]

This tense is a wrong. The people live there, not just temporary are living! The only right tense is: There live a lot of people in this city.

[AndroidKanada]

Use of the progressive/continuing tense does not necessarily imply a temporary situation, though it can.

Your English sentence is quite incorrect, though comprehensible (native speaker here). I'm not sure of the exact rules, I don't teach English. The form "There VERB NOUN-PHRASE ... " can only be used with some verbs and situations, notably the verb "to be".