Thread: Argentine or Argentinian?

Is someone or something from Argentina Argentine or Argentinian? I hear both terms used frequently.

Hi amayo, I was investigating and "Argentinian" is fairly new, "Argentine" is much more used.

I found this graphic

That's very interesting! I would have thought that one was correct and the other incorrect. I always used Argentine so I guess I´m part of the majority

Thanks for composing the graph!

Originally Posted by amayo

Is someone or something from Argentina Argentine or Argentinian? I hear both terms used frequently.

I hear both terms used quite often as well. I always use Argentine.

Hi Vicente, you always make me think ^_^
The gentilic adjectives conformation is curious yeah, its appears that (Contry Name + "an") is the most frequent conformation (Uruguayan, Ecuadorian).
if the Country name ends with a you only add a "n"(Cuban, Nigerian, Bolivian).
Sometimes if the Country name ends with other vowel, replace this vowel with "a" and add "n" (Mexico->Mexican, Morocco->Moroccan)
But sometimes no (Chile->Chilean)
I supose "Argentinan" sounds "bad" then "Argentinian"
I supose too "Peruan" sounds "bad" then "Peruvian"

There are much other rules and exceptions but I don't know.

Bye ^_^.

I think the pronunciation is argen-tayn, I don't know where you may put the accent, if árgen-tayn or argen-táyn.

As an American I pronounce it argen-táyn.