"How many days do we have?"

Translation: Quantos dias nós temos?

[Yvlo]

Why not "quantas"? are the only forms of quanto being quanto/quantos?

[Paulenrique]

No, we have quanta and quantas, but they are used for feminine words, and "dias" is a masculine word.

[TilmanMang]

I hoped that the ending makes the word masculine or feminine :-/

[Paulenrique]

oh.. there are few exceptions!

[SimonKoch-Sultan]

Can you refer me to a list of those exceptions?

[dogrow]

here is some exceptions:

o dia -
o mapa -
o telefonema -
o cinema -
o planeta -
o programa -
o tema -
o problema -
o poema -
o cometa -
o samba

a tribo -
a população -
a foto -
a moto

Can be both, male or female:

a/o jornalista -
a/o artista -
a/o dentista -
a/o motorista -
a/o turista

[Bruno_Henrique0]

o sofá.

[Deniseo6]

So you say: 'o dia' ?

[pango34]

Can't "a gente tem quantos dias?" work?

[Paulenrique]

Yes, correct too.

[cokeramirez]

How would that work?

[cokeramirez]

After two months living in Brasil I can answer my own old question:

"A gente" is used to replace "Nós", so it colloquially means "we", and not the literal "the people".

So "we eat" it's formally "Nós comemos" and colloquially "A gente come".

IT'S SO WEIRD!

[FrancoB455]

This answer literally says "how many days we have?" Why do we not include "fazem"?

[Paulenrique]

When "do" works as an auxiliar verb, it has no translation in Portuguese.

[ZachAmmerman]

Is this similar to the French expression "on est combien aujourd'hui?" ("We are how many today?") which is asking for the date, or does it mean something more literal, like "how many days left do we have?"