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Nationality in Cantonese

This is a list of some common nationalities in Cantonese. It is a nice addition to our other 2 pages: Languages and Countries.

British: 英國人
yīngguó rén
Moroccan: 摩洛哥人
móluògē rén
Chinese: 中國人
zhōngguó rén
Brazilian: 巴西人
bāxī rén
American: 美國人
měiguó rén
French: 法國人
fàguó rén
German: 德國人
déguó rén
Greek: 希臘人
xīlà rén
Israeli: 以色列人
yǐsèliè rén
Indian: 印度人
yìn duó rén
Irish: 愛爾蘭人
ài'ěrlán rén
Italian: 意大利人
yìdàlì rén
Japanese: 日本人
rìběn rén
Korean: 韓國人
hánguó rén
Iranian: 伊朗人
yīlǎng rén
Portuguese: 葡萄牙人
pútáoyá rén
Russian: 俄羅斯人
èluósī rén
Spanish: 西班牙人
xībānyá rén
Swedish: 瑞典人
ruìdiǎn rén
Pakistani: 巴基斯坦人
bājīsītǎn rén

Now we will put some of the words above into a sentence which you might use in a regular conversation about citizenship. All you need is to swap the nationality but keep the same sentence structure.

I'm Italian: 我係意大利人
wǒ xì yìdàlì rén
My wife is Korean: 我太太係韓國人
wǒ tàitài xì hánguó rén
My father is Greek: 我爸爸係希臘人
wǒ bàba xì xīlà rén
I have an American car: 我有一架美國車
wǒ yǒuyī jià měiguó chē
I love French cheese: 我鍾意法國芝士
wǒ zhōng yì fàguó zhīshì
He has a Moroccan rug: 佢有一張摩洛哥地氈
qú yǒuyī zhāng móluògē dì zhān

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