Nationalities

• The first thing you may notice is that we do NOT capitalize nationalities in Spanish the way we do in English:

• Like other adjectives, nationalities which end in "o" in the masculine singular form change to "a" endings in the feminine form, and add an "s" in the plural forms.

• Nationalities which end in consonants generally add an "a" for  the feminine form, add "es" to pluralize the masculine form, and add "s" to pluralize the feminine form.

• Notice that words which have an accent on the final syllable in the masculine singular drop the accent when made feminine or plural.  This is because once we add the "a" or the plural "es/as",  the stress is on the second-to-last syllable which is normal for words ending with S or a vowel.  The accent mark is no longer necessary.    Click here to review Accents & Pronunciation.

• Nationalities ending in "e" have only two forms, a singular and a plural: