Countries in English and Nationalities: Vocabulary

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Surely one of the first questions you learned in English is the famous Where are you from? Talking about countries in English and nationalities is basic, but there are so many possibilities that we can get confused. Today we are going to review the countries and nationalities of Europe, see what rules there are to form nationalities in English and expand our vocabulary with the regions of the world. Let's go!

Rules for forming gentiles
As with so many things in English, there are no fixed rules for forming denonyms that work in all cases, but there are a series of guidelines that should be kept in mind:

The demonym should not be confused with the adjective (although in some kazakhstan phone number list they may seem to be used interchangeably). For example, the adjective for "Spanish" is Spanish , but the demonym is Spaniard . You can say I am Spanish or I am a Spaniard . Similarly, we can talk about Spanish wines , Spanish people or Spaniards .
In English, nationalities are always capitalized , as are country names: I am half Polish, half Norwegian .
In some cases, we can find several valid gentilics for the same place, as you can see in the previous section.