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 Albania Albanian Algeria Algerian America American Angola Angolan Argentina Argentine Australia Australian Bahrain Bahraini Bangladesh Bangladeshi Belgium Belgian Bolivia Bolivian Brazil Brazilian Bulgaria Bulgarian Burundi Burundian Cambodia Cambodian Cameroon Cameroonian Canada Canadian Chad Chadian Chile Chilean China Chinese Colombia Colombian Congo Congolese Costa Rica Costa Rican Cuba Cuban Cyprus Cyprian (Cypriot) Czech Czech Denmark Danish (Dane) Ecuador Ecuadorian Egypt Egyptian England English Ethiopia Ethiopian Finland Finnish France French Germany German Greece Greek Guinea Guinean Haiti Haitian Honduras Honduran Hungary Hungarian Iceland Icelander India Indian Indonesia Indonesian Iran Iranian Iraq Iraqi Ireland Irish Israel Israeli Italy Italian How to ask about somebody’s nationality: - Where 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 ma can Fi gen nav can Gua kis nes ia In li pe ian Ma me pi lan Pa ri na Pa ro ta ni Scan te ti no Answers: - - - - - - - - - -