Learn English – Are there any difference between ‘Are you a native Chinese?’ and ‘Are you native Chinese?”

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For the following sentences, are they same in meaning?

1: Are you a native Chinese?

2: Are you native Chinese?

Best Answer

Both sentences are different in meaning.

The word Chinese is a singular noun in the former and a plural noun in the latter,

The word native is an adjective modifying the Chinese in these sentences. So these sentences mean:

Are you a native Chinese? = Are you a native of China?

Are you native Chinese? = Are you natives of China?