https://reurl.cc/main/en Quora Stories from your activity I am American. I am an American. Which one is correct? Can I say " I'm a Chinese."? Is that right? Darren McSweeney Darren McSweeney, English speaking from birth until today... Updated Aug 15, 2019 The words we are talking about are called demonyms. You can say I am American and I am an American, because the word American is both a noun and adjective. The same goes with Australian or German or Canadian or African or Asian. Unfortunately, there are many nationalities which are adjectives only, and cannot be used as a noun. Any that end with -sh or -ese fall into this category. So you can say I am Chinese or I am English or I am French, but you cannot say I am an English, or I am a Chinese or I am a French. You need to add another word (like man, citizen, person) to the adjective nationality: I am a Chinese citizen, I am an Englishman, I am a French person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epcEUz3-Esg “I’m a Chinese” 是错的吗？很多人都搞错了！ --

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