| There are nouns and then there are adjectives. This quiz is about adjectives, a word that expresses an attribute of something, in this case, an attribute about a country. It's not about nouns, so it can't be about denomyns, which are names for a resident of a locality. The source lists nouns and adjectives because they are different things. The confusing thing is that often the same word is used as a noun and an adjective. But not always. To see the distinction pick one of the cases where the noun and adjective are not the same word, for example, Dane and Danish. The Danish prime minister is a Dane. Danish functions as an adjective in that sentence and Dane as a noun (denomyn). One would never say: The Dane prime minister is a Danish. Likewise: the French prime minister is a Frenchman; never: the Frenchman prime minister is a French. This quiz is about the adjectival form of a country's name. Denomyns are fine, but they're the subject of a different quiz. |
Countries of Europe
Countries of Africa
Countries of Asia
