Nationalities in English

Forming nationality adjectives and nouns from country names is not always simple in English. Use the nationality adjective ending in -ese or -ish with a plural verb, to refer to all people of that nationality (see the last two examples below). The adjective listed also often refers to the language spoken in the country, although this is not always the case.

Examples

Country: I live in Japan.
Adjective: He likes Japanese food.
Noun: She is Japanese.
She speaks Japanese.
The Spanish stay up late.
The Chinese are very hard-working.

Country	Adjective	Noun
Africa	African	an African
America	American	an American
Argentina	Argentinian	an Argentinian
Austria	Austrian	an Austrian
Autralia	Australian	an Australian
Bangladesh	Bangladesh(i)	a Bangladeshi
Belgium	Belgian	a Belgian
Brazil	Brazilian	a Brazilian
Britain	British	a Briton/Britisher
Cambodia	Cambodian	a Cambodian
Chile	Chilean	a Chilean
China	Chinese	a Chinese
Colombia	Colombian	a Colombian
Croatia	Croatian	a Croat
the Czech Republic	Czech	a Czech
Denmark	Danish	a Dane
England	English	an Englishman/Englishwoman
Finland	Finnish	a Finn
France	French	a Frenchman/Frenchwoman
Germany	German	a German
Greece	Greek	a Greek
Holland	Dutch	a Dutchman/Dutchwoman
Hungary	Hungarian	a Hungarian
Iceland	Icelandic	an Icelander
India	Indian	an Indian
Indonesia	Indonesian	an Indonesian
Iran	Iranian	an Iranian
Iraq	Iraqi	an Iraqi
Ireland	Irish	an Irishman/Irishwoman
Israel	Israeli	an Israeli
Jamaica	Jamaican	a Jamaican
Japan	Japanese	a Japanese
Mexico	Mexican	a Mexican
Morocco	Moroccan	a Moroccan
Norway	Norwegian	a Norwegian
Peru	Peruvian	a Peruvian
the Philippines	Philippine	a Filipino
Poland	Polish	a Pole
Portugal	Portuguese	a Portuguese
Rumania	Rumanian	a Rumanian
Russia	Russian	a Russian
Saudi Arabia	Saudi, Saudi Arabian	a Saudi, a Saudi Arabian
Scotland	Scottish	a Scot
Serbia	Serbian	a Serb
the Slovak Republic	Slovak	a Slovak
Sweden	Swedish	a Swede
Switzerland	Swiss	a Swiss
Thailand	Thai	a Thai
The USA	American	an American
Tunisia	Tunisian	a Tunisian
Turkey	Turkish	a Turk
Vietnam	Vietnamese	a Vietnamese
Wales	Welsh	a Welshman/Welshwoman
Yugoslavia	Yugoslav	a Yugoslav

Grammar Usage

NOUNS

ADJECTIVES

What adjectives are and what they are for
Forming and placing adjectives in English
What order to put adjectives in when you are using more than one at a time
Forming the comparative and the superlative of adjectives
Using adjectives to compare qualities
Using adjectives to compare equal quantites
Using adjectives to compare unequal quantites

ADVERBS

What adverbs are and what they are for
Forming adverbs from adjectives
Forming the comparative and the superlative of adverbs
Adverbs of place
Adverbs of time
Adverbs of manner
Adverbs of degree
Adverbs of certainty
Viewpoint and commenting adverbs
Relative adverbs
Interrogative adverbs

VERBS AND VERB TENSE

Present Tenses

- Simple present

- Present continuous

- Present perfect

- Present perfect continuous

Past tenses

- Simple Past

- Past Continuous

- Past Perfect

- Past Perfect Continuous

Perfect tenses

- Present perfect

- Present perfect continuous

- Past Perfect

- Past Perfect Continuous

- Future perfect

- Future perfect continuous

Future tenses

- Simple future tense

- Future continuous tense

- Future perfect tense

- Future perfect continuous tense

Conditional sentences

- Zero conditional sentences

- Type 1 conditional sentences

- Type 2 conditional sentences

- Type 3 Conditional Sentences

- Mixed conditional sentences

The -ing form

- Present participle

- Gerund

Infinitives
Passive voice

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