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L2 Countries and Nationalities
(under construction; some stress marks and data missing)
This is a list of often used country and region names, in Croatian, together with
associated adjectives, and names of inhabitants (both male and female
The first line contains the English name of a region/country, the Croatian name, and
if the name is an really an adjective, there's a mark (adj.); otherwise, adjective is
listed after an arrow; then there are names for inhabitants, first male, then female,
separated by a tilde.
Although the names of inhabitants are unpredictable, there are couple of common
patterns. Nouns for many inhabitants follow the ‘ac/ka scheme’:
Amerikanac (Amerikanc-) ~ Amerikanka
The part before -ac, -c- and -ka stays the same (but observe the stress shift left in
feminine, in the standard stress scheme!) so there's no need to list all forms over
and over; I'll instead just write – in the usual way:
Amerikan ac (-c-) ~ -ka
There's a scheme that's a small variation to the previous, the ‘ac/kinja scheme’:
Danac (Danc-) ~ Dankinja
It applies only to short names (one syllable before -ac), and there's no stress shift.
I'll write just:
Dan ac (-c-) ~ -kinja
There's yet another common scheme for nouns, where male noun is always
shortened in plural forms, the ‘in/ka scheme’:
Kanađanin (N-pl Kanađani) ~ Kanađanka
Observe that the stress is the same in male and female noun. I'll write just:
Kanađan in (N-pl -i) ~ -ka
Regardless of the scheme, the endings, there's a rule for all nouns for male
inhabitants: they always have plural with just -i, regardless of number of syllables:
Hrvat Croat → Hrvati Rus Russian → Rusi
This means that consonant shifts in masculine N-pl apply as well:
Čeh Czech → Česi Grk Greek → Grci
Furthermore, certain names of male inhabitants have specific forms (listed below)
and are marked by an asterisk (*).
Some countries have more than one name for inhabitants in use; the more common
is listed first.