Countries & nationalities

By: D.Messaoudi

The adjectives of nationalities are built with the addition of the suffixes « -ian, -an, -n, -ish, -ese, -i,
-ch, -er » to the names of the countries, or with changing the final vowel. Here are the models; the
change in the root is underlined and the stressed syllable (in the list) is indicated with bold letters:

 Egypt         → Egyptian
 Chile          → Chilean
 Algeria       → Algerian
 Spain         → Spanish
 China         → Chinese
 Iraq            → Iraqi
 France       → French
 Iceland       → Icelander
 Argentina   → Argentine

List of the countries and nationalities of the world:

Afghanistan          Afghan Jamaica                Jamaican

Albania                 Albanian Japan                   Japanese

Algeria                  Algerian Jordan                  Jordanian

America                American Kenya                  Kenyan

Angola                  Angolan Kuwait                  Kuwaiti

Argentina              Argentine Lebanon               Lebanese

Australia               Australian Liberia                  Liberian

Bahrain                Bahraini Libya                    Libyan

Bangladesh         Bangladeshi Luxembourg        

Luxembourgian
Belgium               Belgian
Madagascar         Madagascan
Bolivia                  Bolivian
Mali                       Malian
Brazil                    Brazilian
Mauritania             Mauritanian
Bulgaria                Bulgarian
Mexico                 Mexican
Burundi                Burundian
Mongolia               Mongolian
Cambodia            Cambodian
Morocco               Moroccan
Cameroon           Cameroonian
Nepal                    Nepalese
Canada                 Canadian
Niger                    Native of Niger
Chad                     Chadian
Nigeria                  Nigerian
Chile                     Chilean Norway                Norwegian

China                   Chinese Pakistan               Pakistani

Colombia              Colombian Panama                Panamanian

Congo                  Congolese Paraguay              Paraguayan

Costa Rica           Costa Rican Peru                     Peruvian

Cuba                    Cuban Philippines           Filipino

Cyprus                  Cyprian Poland                  Polish

(Cypriot)
Portugal               Portuguese
Czech                   Czech
Romania               Romanian
Denmark              Danish (Dane)
Russia                  Russian
Ecuador                Ecuadorian
Saudi Arabia         Saudi Arabian
Egypt                    Egyptian
Senegal                Senegalese
England                English
Slovak                  Slovakian
Ethiopia               Ethiopian
South Africa          South African
Finland                 Finnish
Spain                    Spanish
France                  French
Sudan                  Sudanese
Germany              German
Switzerland          Swiss
Greece                 Greek
Syria                     Syrian
Guinea                 Guinean
Taiwan                 Taiwanese
Haiti                      Haitian
Thailand               Thai
Honduras             Honduran
Togo                     Togolese
Hungary               Hungarian
Tunisia                 Tunisian
Iceland                 Icelander
Turkey                  Turk
India                     Indian 
Venezuela            Venezuelan
Indonesia             Indonesian
Vietnam                Vietnamese
Iran                       Iranian
Yemen                 Yemeni
Iraq                       Iraqi
Zimbabwe            Zimbabwean
Ireland                  Irish
 
Israel                    Israeli

Italy                       Italian
 

How to ask about somebody’s nationality:

-          Where do you come from ?

-          Where are you from ?

-          What nationality are you ?  

How to answer:

-          I come from Algeria.

-          I am from Algeria.

-          I am Algerian.

Notice: Nationality adjectives start with a capital letter.

Exercise : 

Name & class: Date:

Instruction: In the following table, names of countries & adjectives of nationalities have been chopped
and mixed. Rearrange them and then match them to obtain complete names & adjectives.

A da gas an
Ar di guay an
Eu do ma can
Fi gen nav can
Gua kis nes ia
In li pe ian
Ma me pi lan
Pa ra ri na
Pa ro ta ni
Scan te ti no

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