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Spanish descriptive adjectives: Adjectives for nationalities

Adjectives describe or give information about nouns or pronouns.

The form of adjectives in Spanish changes and it agrees with the noun and pronoun in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural).

They must agree in gender with the noun they modify or add information.

- Most masculine adjectives end in -o: italiano

- Most feminine adjectives end in -a: italiana

- Adjectives that do not end in -o or -a use the same form for masculine or feminine: costarricense, canadiense, estadounidense...

- Adjectives that end in -a do not have changes: croata, belga...

- Adjectives that end in -án in the masculine form, made the feminine in -ana, dropping the accent: alemán, alemana.

- Adjectives that end in -és in the masculine form, made the feminine in -esa, dropping the accent: inglés, inglesa.

They must agree in number with the noun they modify or add information.

- If the adjective ends in a vowel, add -s: italiano - italianos, italiana - italianas.

- If the adjective ends in a -z, changes to c: andaluz - andaluces.

- If the adjective end in -án, made the plural in -anes, dropping the accent: alemán, alemanes.

- If the adjective end in -és, made the plural in -eses, dropping the accent: inglés, ingleses .

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