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Korean
A male person who comes from Korea, has Korean citizenship, or is of Korean descent.
Mein neuer Kollege ist Koreaner und hat uns von seiner Heimatstadt Seoul erzählt.
My new colleague is Korean and told us about his hometown, Seoul.
'Der Koreaner' is a noun of the N-declension. This means it gets the ending '-n' in all cases except the nominative singular: 'den Koreaner' (accusative), 'dem Koreaner' (dative), 'des Koreaners' (genitive).
Ich habe gestern mit dem Koreaner gesprochen.
I spoke with the Korean yesterday.
The word family includes the country 'Korea', the feminine form 'die Koreanerin' (Korean woman), and the adjective 'koreanisch' (Korean). The adjective is used for everything that relates to Korea.
Ich liebe koreanisches Essen.
I love Korean food.
The ending '-aner' is often attached to a country name to form the masculine term for an inhabitant. You also find this pattern in 'Amerikaner' (American) or 'Mexikaner' (Mexican).
Ein Afrikaner und ein Amerikaner saßen im Café.
An African and an American were sitting in the café.
Korean
'koreanisch' and 'Koreaner' both have to do with Korea, but grammatically they do not belong to the same group. 'koreanisch' describes something, for example food, music, culture, or language. Written with a capital letter as 'Koreanisch', it means the language. 'der Koreaner', on the other hand, is a male person from Korea or of Korean descent. Learners may confuse the words because in some languages the same form is used for the language, origin, and person. In German, you say: 'eine koreanische Serie' (a Korean series), 'Koreanisch lernen' (to learn Korean), but 'ein Koreaner' for a person.
Der Koreaner in unserem Kurs erzählt oft von seiner Heimatstadt.
The Korean man in our course often talks about his hometown.
Meine Schwester lernt seit einem Jahr Koreanisch.
My sister has been learning Korean for a year.