https://reurl.cc/main/en
Quora
Stories from your activity
I am American. I am an American. Which one is correct? Can I say " I'm a
Chinese."? Is that right?
Darren McSweeney
Darren McSweeney, English speaking from birth until today...
Updated Aug 15, 2019
The words we are talking about are called demonyms. You can say I am American
and I am an American, because the word American is both a noun and adjective.
The same goes with Australian or German or Canadian or African or Asian.
Unfortunately, there are many nationalities which are adjectives only, and
cannot be used as a noun. Any that end with -sh or -ese fall into this
category. So you can say I am Chinese or I am English or I am French, but you
cannot say I am an English, or I am a Chinese or I am a French. You need to
add another word (like man, citizen, person) to the adjective nationality: I
am a Chinese citizen, I am an Englishman, I am a French person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epcEUz3-Esg
“I’m a Chinese” 是错的吗？很多人都搞错了！
--
※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 111.240.115.47 (臺灣)
※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Eng-Class/M.1643042429.A.05E.html
※ 編輯: ostracize (114.36.215.43 臺灣), 07/29/2025 03:52:26