Membentuk kebangsaan dalam bahasa Inggris tidak sesulit yang kita bayangkan. Kita cukup melihat nama negara, bangsa, serta bahasa yang diucapkan. Semuanya saling terkait. Seperti:
- Negara: I live in Japan.
- Bangsa: He likes Japanese food (origin/asal). She is Japanese (orang).
- Bahasa: She speaks Japanese.
Keterkaitan di atas dapat dilihat dari adanya penambahan. Yaitu penambahan ese dari kata Japan (Negara Jepang) menjadi Japanese (orang Jepang),
Dalam aspek lain, kebangsaan dalam bahasa Inggris juga dapat dibentuk dengan melakukan pengurangan. Seperti mengurangi istan dari kata Afghanistan (Negara Afganistan) menjadi Afghan (orang Afganistan).
Tidak hanya itu, bisa juga dengan melakukan perubahan. Seperti pada kata Poland (Negara Polandia), yang diubah menjadi Polish (bahasa Polandia), dan a pole (orang Polandia)
Kebangsaan dalam bahasa Inggris
Untuk memahami lebih mendalam, coba anda perhatikan semua nama negara, bahasa, dan orangnya dalam tabel di bawah ini:
NEGARA | BAHASA | ORANG |
Afghanistan | Afghan | an Afghan |
Algeria | Algerian | an Algerian |
Angola | Angolan | an Angolan |
Argentina | Argentine | an Argentine |
Austria | Austrian | an Austrian |
Australia | Australian | an Australian |
Bangladesh | Bangladeshi | a Bangladeshi |
Belarus | Belarusian | a Belarusian |
Belgium | Belgian | a Belgian |
Bolivia | Bolivian | a Bolivian |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnian/Herzegovinian | a Bosnian/a Herzegovinian |
Brazil | Brazilian | a Brazilian |
Britain | British | a Briton / a Brit (informal) |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian | a Bulgarian |
Cambodia | Cambodian | a Cambodian |
Cameroon | Cameroonian | a Cameroonian |
Canada | Canadian | a Canadian |
Central African Republic | Central African | a Central African |
Chad | Chadian | a Chadian |
China | Chinese | a Chinese person |
Colombia | Colombian | a Colombian |
Costa Rica | Costa Rican | a Costa Rican |
Croatia | Croatian | a Croat |
the Czech Republic | Czech | a Czech person |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | Congolese | a Congolese person |
Denmark | Danish | a Dane |
Ecuador | Ecuadorian | an Ecuadorian |
Egypt | Egyptian | an Egyptian |
El Salvador | Salvadoran | a Salvadoran / Salvadorian / Salvadorean |
England | English | an Englishman/Englishwoman |
Estonia | Estonian | an Estonian |
Ethiopia | Ethiopian | an Ethiopian |
Finland | Finnish | a Finn |
France | French | a Frenchman/Frenchwoman |
Germany | German | a German |
Ghana | Ghanaian | a Ghanaian |
Greece | Greek | a Greek |
Guatemala | Guatemalan | a Guatemalan |
Holland | Dutch | a Dutchman/Dutchwoman |
Honduras | Honduran | a Honduran |
Hungary | Hungarian | a Hungarian |
Iceland | Icelandic | an Icelander |
India | Indian | an Indian |
Indonesia | Indonesian | an Indonesian |
Iran | Iranian | an Iranian |
Iraq | Iraqi | an Iraqi |
Ireland | Irish | an Irishman/Irishwoman |
Israel | Israeli | an Israeli |
Italy | Italian | an Italian |
Ivory Coast | Ivorian | an Ivorian |
Jamaica | Jamaican | a Jamaican |
Japan | Japanese | a Japanese person |
Jordan | Jordanian | a Jordanian |
Kazakhstan | Kazakh | a Kazakhstani / a Kazakh (etnik) |
Kenya | Kenyan | a Kenyan |
Laos | Lao | a Laotian / a Lao (etnik) |
Latvia | Latvian | a Latvian |
Libya | Libyan | a Libyan |
Lithuania | Lithuanian | a Lithuanian |
Madagascar | Malagasy | a Malagasy |
Malaysia | Malaysian | a Malaysian |
Mali | Malian | a Malian |
Mauritania | Mauritanian | a Mauritanian |
Mexico | Mexican | a Mexican |
Morocco | Moroccan | a Moroccan |
Namibia | Namibian | a Namibian |
New Zealand | New Zealand | a New Zealander |
Nicaragua | Nicaraguan | a Nicaraguan |
Niger | Nigerien | a Nigerien |
Nigeria | Nigerian | a Nigerian |
Norway | Norwegian | a Norwegian |
Oman | Omani | an Omani |
Pakistan | Pakistani | a Pakistani |
Panama | Panamanian | a Panamanian |
Paraguay | Paraguayan | a Paraguayan |
Peru | Peruvian | a Peruvian |
The Philippines | Philippine | a Filipino |
Poland | Polish | a Pole |
Portugal | Portuguese | a Portuguese person |
Republic of the Congo | Congolese | a Congolese person |
Romania | Romanian | a Romanian |
Russia | Russian | a Russian |
Saudi Arabia | Saudi, Saudi Arabian | a Saudi, a Saudi Arabian |
Scotland | Scottish | a Scot |
Senegal | Senegalese | a Senegalese person |
Serbia | Serbian | a Serbian / a Serb (etnik) |
Singapore | Singaporean | a Singaporean |
Slovakia | Slovak | a Slovak |
Somalia | Somalian | a Somalian |
South Africa | South African | a South African |
Spain | Spanish | a Spaniard |
Sudan | Sudanese | a Sudanese person |
Sweden | Swedish | a Swede |
Switzerland | Swiss | a Swiss person |
Syria | Syrian | a Syrian |
Thailand | Thai | a Thai person |
Tunisia | Tunisian | a Tunisian |
Turkey | Turkish | a Turk |
Turkmenistan | Turkmen | a Turkmen / the Turkmens |
Ukraine | Ukranian | a Ukranian |
The United Arab Emirates | Emirati | an Emirati |
The United States | American | an American |
Uruguay | Uruguayan | a Uruguayan |
Vietnam | Vietnamese | a Vietnamese person |
Wales | Welsh | a Welshman/Welshwoman |
Zambia | Zambian | a Zambian |
Zimbabwe | Zimbabwean | a Zimbabwean |
Semua Kebangsaan dalam bahasa Inggris di artikel ini adalah sebagai sampel. Pelajari semua materi di atas untuk mengurangi kekeliruan dalam speaking anda.