The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents. A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, "Italian cuisine" is "cuisine of Italy". A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany.

Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms. The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman). The French terminations / serve as both the singular and plural masculine; adding e ( / ) makes them singular feminine; es ( / ) makes them plural feminine. The Spanish and Portuguese termination usually denotes the masculine, and is normally changed to feminine by dropping the and adding . The plural forms are usually and respectively.

List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations

Adjectives ending in -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. "the English", "the Cornish"). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. "the French", "the Dutch") provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify).

List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations

Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. (Sometimes, the use of one or more additional words is optional.) Notable examples are cuisines, cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds. (See List of words derived from toponyms.)

List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations

In cases where two or more adjectival forms are given, there is often a subtle difference in usage between the two. This is particularly the case with Central Asian countries, where one form tends to relate to the nation and the other tends to relate to the predominant ethnic group (e.g. Uzbek is primarily an ethnicity, Uzbekistani relates to citizens of Uzbekistan).

List

See also

Demonym

List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names

List of adjectivals and demonyms for astronomical bodies

List of adjectivals and demonyms for continental regions

List of adjectivals and demonyms for subcontinental regions

List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations

List of adjectivals and demonyms for Australia

List of adjectivals and demonyms for Canada

List of adjectivals and demonyms for Cuba

List of adjectivals and demonyms for India

List of adjectivals and demonyms for Malaysia

List of adjectivals and demonyms for Mexico

List of adjectivals and demonyms for New Zealand

List of adjectivals and demonyms for the Philippines

List of adjectivals and demonyms for the United States

List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities

List of adjectivals and demonyms for former regions

List of adjectivals and demonyms for Greco-Roman antiquity

List of adjectivals and demonyms for fictional regions

Notes

References

External links

Alphabetical list of world demonyms

CIA World Factbook – NATIONALITY

Lists of place names

Countries