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"¿Conociste a mucha gente en tu viaje?"
Translation:Did you meet a lot of people on your trip?
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939
I'm pretty sure you can use the plural "travels" when still talking about just one journey.
1097
Is there a difference in meaning between "muchas personas" and "mucha gente"? Duolingo accepts both.
1452
They can often be used interchangeably however I read somewhere that 'gente', because it treats people as a group can imply they all share some implied quality or relationship that you wish to convey. 'Personas' on the other hand treats them as individuals.
692
Duo's own definition of "mucha" is "a lot of" and "many" but marked wrong the use of "many" ! Oct. 7, 2019
675
Indeed. Or if you went somewhere you had been before and I wanted to find out if you (already) knew many of the people you saw.
939
Ocsga, casi es bueno. Tienes que usar "con" con "encontrarse" si quieres hablar de "meeting someone":
- ¿Tú te encontraste con mucha gente? - Did you meet (with) many people?
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I understand that conociste is the past tense form of conocer (to know or to meet), however, "met" is the past tense of the English "meet", or to be more precise, "to have met" is the (a?) past tense form that seems to me to be at least as "correct" as "did __ meet,"
I translated the question as, "Have you met a lot of people on your trip?" I do not understand why I did not receive credit.
(Please explain the difference between "did he meet, did you meet, did they meet," etc., and "has he met, have you met, have they met," etc.)