Guten Tag! 2.5 Nationality table

Listed below are the nouns of nationality for the countries which we have encountered so far. Note that:

 

The vast majority of feminine nouns end in "-in". The major exception is an important one however - "die Deutsche" ("the German woman").

With a few exceptions (der Ungar, der Israeli, der Zypriot), the names of male inhabitants listed below either end in "-e" or "-er". This is a little misleading however. For as we shall see in Chapter 11, the masculine nouns that end in "-e" can in fact take a number of endings depending on the case that they are in and whether they are preceded by an article. For the moment we have given you the endings that you will need to translate "He is a ..."