سوال بالنسبة للجنسيات

أيهما اصح ان نقول
He is a Saudi or He is Saudi

He is an American or He is American

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
عزيزي سوالك جديد بالنسبة لي
بحث ولم اجد شي
فسالت احد المجاضرين
فكانت اجابته

اقتباس:

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i am american
i am an american
i am chinese

are all correct.

If you say:

I am a chinese

it feels like the sentence is incomplete (you are a chinese what?), you would need to say something like:

I am a chinese person.

Typically nationalities that end in '-an' can be used as a noun to mean a person of that nationality (as well as an adjective), e.g. Australian, canadian, american, german etc.

Therefore you can say things like i am an australian, or i am an american.

Other nationalities tend to only act as an adjective, e.g. Chinese, japanese, english, swedish etc.

So sentences like 'i am an english' or 'i am a chinese' sound incomplete because they have no noun.
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