Nationalities, countries and regions 国籍、国、地域

1. introduction

the name of the country or region

Denmark Japan France Catalonia

the adjective

Danish Japanese French Catalan

the singular noun used for a person from the country

a Dane a Japanese a Frenchman/woman a Catalans

the plural expression the… used for the population as a whole

the Danes the Japanese the French the Catalans

the singular noun is the same as the adjective (e.g. Greek, Mexican).
the plural expression is usually the same as the adjective + -s (e.g. the Greeks, the Mexicans);
words ending in -ese, and Swiss, remain unchanged for plural meanings (e.g. the Japanese, the Swiss).
All words of this kind begin with capital letters.
The name of a national language is often the same as the national adjective.

• • * Danish is difficult to pronounce.
  • * Do you speak Japanese?

2. Examples

3. exceptions

最終更新：2019/12/1