azerbaijan

azerbaijan — noun

1. a nation lying where eastern Europe meets western Asia, with a long shoreline on

1.名詞
釋義

a nation lying where eastern Europe meets western Asia, with a long shoreline on the Caspian Sea, sharing land borders with Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Iran; its capital is Baku.

例句

Omar flew to Azerbaijan last summer to visit his grandmother in Baku.

proper noun used without an article

The oil fields along the Caspian coast have made Azerbaijan an important energy producer.

subject of a sentence about geography or economy

文法句型

proper noun, no article

用法筆記

Always capitalised and used without an article. The adjective and demonym is 'Azerbaijani' (people, language, food); 'Azeri' is sometimes used for the language and the largest ethnic group, but is now less preferred in formal writing.

常見錯誤

❌I went to the Azerbaijan last year.
✅I went to Azerbaijan last year.
💡country names are proper nouns and take no article.
❌She speaks Azerbaijan at home.
✅She speaks Azerbaijani at home.
💡the country is 'Azerbaijan'; the language and people are 'Azerbaijani'.