Translation
Frenchman, French person
Examples
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He is a Frenchman and lives in a big city.
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The French and the Germans came to the congress.
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I know a young Frenchwoman from the south.
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The Frenchman answered in Esperanto.
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Many French people learn foreign languages.
Esperanto builds nationality from the person outward, not from the country inward. is the root: a French person. The country is derived from him, historically o and now more often Francio, the adjective is franca, the language is franca, and o is a Frenchwoman. English does it the other way round, deriving French from France, so the direction feels backwards at first. Note also that nationality words are lowercase in Esperanto, unlike English, and only the country name keeps its capital.
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