- 1葉門人;葉門的(中國大陸作「也門人/也門的」)
The word you use for a person from Yemen, or for anything belonging to Yemen. It works two ways. As a noun it means a person: 'She is a Yemeni', 'three Yemenis came to the meeting' — and note the plural takes a normal -s, Yemenis. As an adjective it goes in front of a noun and means 'of Yemen': Yemeni food, the Yemeni government, a Yemeni passport, Yemeni Arabic. The definition line above describes the country; the word itself is the people-and-things word made from that country's name. Always a capital Y, like Japanese or . Careful with one thing: for the language, we do not say 'he speaks Yemeni' — the language of Yemen is Arabic, and if you want to be exact you say 'Yemeni Arabic', which is a way of speaking Arabic, not a separate language. This is different from how 'Japanese' or 'Korean' work, where the country word is also the language word, and that is exactly where students slip.
組成Yemen + -i. The ending -i is borrowed from Arabic and Persian, where it does the same job as English -ish or -ese: it turns a place name into 'belonging to that place'.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Yemeniadj/ˈjɛ.mə.ni/
- 1
Of, from or relating to Yemen, or the Yemeni people.
- “It’s getting a little bit stressful,” Nasser said. A Yemeni cafe requires Yemeni coffee. And Nasser, who plans to open many more Yemeni cafes, needs a lot more beans.
- I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas.
Yemeninoun/ˈjɛ.mə.ni/
- 1
A native or inhabitant of Yemen or of Yemeni descent.
- Fellow Yemenis make up a small percentage of the new owners.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。