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TMOX

29 Ağu 2020

Japonca

İngilizce (Birleşik Krallık)
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I'm a Japanese. ve I'm Japanese. arasındaki fark nedir?Sadece örnek cümleler vermekten çekinmeyin.

It's quite difficult for me to use properly the articles.

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Igirisujin

29 Ağu 2020

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@TMOX I'm a Japanese (noun).

I'm Japanese (adjective).

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cassandraliu108

29 Ağu 2020

Geleneksel Çince (Hong Kong)
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@TMOX

➡I'm Japanese
(✔)

意味 :
➡私は日本人です。
:)

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TMOX

29 Ağu 2020

Japonca

@cassandraliu108 Thank you. Would you please teach me more detail?

Is "I'm a Japanese" incorrect? Or don't we even say "I'm the Japanese"?

Igirisujin

29 Ağu 2020

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@TMOX I'm a Japanese (noun).

I'm Japanese (adjective).

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TMOX

29 Ağu 2020

Japonca

Oh, I understand. Thank you @cassandraliu108 @Igirisujin

Japanese in "I'm Japanese" is not a plural form of a noun without articles, but the adjective!

shimsham84

29 Ağu 2020

İngilizce (Birleşik Krallık)

This is a very weird feature of demonyms and adjectives in English but basically nationalities ending in SH, CH and ESE are not nouns, they are only adjectives and therefore they need a noun in the singular.

You CAN say:
"The French. The Japanese. The Dutch. The Welsh. The Scottish.

You CANNOT say:
"A French. A Japanese. A Dutch. A Welsh. A Scottish.

You have to say a noun after these things.

In addition, some of these have a noun with the suffix "man" such as "a Frenchman, a Dutchman" but these are archaic and unpredictable (A Scotsman).

Basically just say "I'm Japanese"

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cassandraliu108

29 Ağu 2020

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@TMOX
Well, if we're talking about one 's nationality ( 国籍 ) :
E.G .
He's Irish .
(彼はアイルランド人です。)

She's Korean.
(彼女は韓国人です。 )

They are British.
( 彼らはイギリス人です。)

:)

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TMOX

29 Ağu 2020

Japonca

Hi there, thank you very much for your kind comments! I really appreciate all of you. @cassandraliu108 @Igirisujin @shimsham84

I'm going to write my understandings here later. I have something to have to do now. Have a nice weekend!

cassandraliu108

29 Ağu 2020

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@TMOX

そんなに言われると恐縮です。

(^^;)

お手伝いできてよかったです。

ლ(・ヮ・ლ)

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Igirisujin

29 Ağu 2020

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@TMOX >>Japanese in "I'm Japanese" is not a plural form of a noun without articles, but the adjective!<<

そうですね。

He's American (adjective)
He's an American (noun)

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TMOX

30 Ağu 2020

Japonca

Hi there! The followings are a summary of my understandings based on your comments. Further instructions/corrections/comments are very welcome.

[(1) I'm Japanese.] OK
"Japanese" here is an adjective and represents one of the properties of "I". It plays a similar role to "small" in "I'm small".

[(2) I'm a Japanese.] NG
We CANNOT say this because "Japanese" here is not a noun but an adjective. In other words, this sentence is grammatically wrong and incomplete. To complete it, you need to add an countable noun after "Japanese" (See the item (3)).

If the demonyms end with other than -ese, -sh, -ch, we CAN say in this way like "I'm an American", "I'm a Dominican", "I'm a Russian, "I'm an Indian", "I'm a Korean", "I'm an Italian", "I'm a Canadian", etc. For these, we can also use the the ways like "(1) I'm American", "(3) I'm an American person", or "(4) I'm the American".

[(3) I'm a Japanese person.] OK
"Japanese" here is an adjective and just modifies the countable noun "person". You need the article "a" for "person".

[(4) I'm the Japanese.] OK
We can say in this way. First, "Japanese" here is also an adjective. However, it is nomialised by adding "the". "The Japanese" means a group of people belonging to a group named "Japanese". We can reword "I'm the Japanese" as "I'm Japanese people".

TMOX

30 Ağu 2020

Japonca

@Igirisujin @cassandraliu108

お二人は日本語もできるんですね。ぜひまた色々教えてください！

Igirisujin

30 Ağu 2020

İngilizce (Birleşik Krallık)
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@TMOX I'm a Japanese (noun). ✅

I'm Japanese (adjective). ✅

We normally say the second one but both are good.

Don't worry about the rest. The nouns and adjectives differ from one country to another.

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TMOX

30 Ağu 2020

Japonca

@Igirisujin OK. I will think simple for now. Thanx.

Igirisujin

30 Ağu 2020

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@TMOX For example:

Japanese:
adjective
noun 1 the Japanese language
noun 2 a Japanese person

French:
adjective
noun 1 the French language
noun 2 the French people (not a single French person)

(In the case of "French", there are also some other meanings because of our long association with them, but you need a dictionary to understand it fully.)

So, you can't be fully certain unless you read each definition. There isn't a rule that applies to all nationalities. I sometimes look one up myself. Don't worry about them all now.

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TMOX

31 Ağu 2020

Japonca

@Igirisujin Actually, I'm a person who is interested in science and mathematics and had no interest in English/languages. Recently, I've been studying languages (and histories as well) for my hobbies. I found that learning languages are fun, though languages are pretty complicated. I will learn little by little.

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I'm a Japanese. ve I'm Japanese. arasındaki fark nedir?

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I'm a Japanese. ve I'm Japanese. arasındaki fark nedir?Sadece örnek cümleler vermekten çekinmeyin.

@TMOX I'm a Japanese (noun). I'm Japanese (adjective).

@TMOX ➡I'm Japanese(✔)意味 :➡私は日本人です。:)

@TMOX I'm a Japanese (noun). I'm Japanese (adjective).

@TMOX Well, if we're talking about one 's nationality ( 国籍 ) :E.G .He's Irish .(彼はアイルランド人です。)She's Korean.(彼女は 韓国人です。 )They are British.( 彼らはイギリス人です。):)

@TMOX そんなに言われると恐縮です。(^^;)お手伝いできてよかったです。ლ(・ヮ・ლ)

@TMOX >>Japanese in "I'm Japanese" is not a plural form of a noun without articles, but the adjective!<<そうですね。He's American (adjective)He's an American (noun)

@TMOX I'm a Japanese (noun). ✅I'm Japanese (adjective). ✅We normally say the second one but both are good. Don't worry about the rest. The nouns and adjectives differ from one country to another.

Öğrendiğiniz dili ana dil olarak konuşanlara ücretsiz olarak sorular sorun

@TMOX I'm a Japanese (noun).

I'm Japanese (adjective).

@TMOX

➡I'm Japanese
(✔)

意味 :
➡私は日本人です。
:)

@TMOX I'm a Japanese (noun).

I'm Japanese (adjective).

@TMOX
Well, if we're talking about one 's nationality ( 国籍 ) :
E.G .
He's Irish .
(彼はアイルランド人です。)

She's Korean.
(彼女は韓国人です。 )

They are British.
( 彼らはイギリス人です。)

:)

@TMOX

そんなに言われると恐縮です。

(^^;)

お手伝いできてよかったです。

ლ(・ヮ・ლ)

@TMOX >>Japanese in "I'm Japanese" is not a plural form of a noun without articles, but the adjective!<<

そうですね。

He's American (adjective)
He's an American (noun)

@TMOX I'm a Japanese (noun). ✅

I'm Japanese (adjective). ✅

We normally say the second one but both are good.

Don't worry about the rest. The nouns and adjectives differ from one country to another.