Deriving adjectives from city names

1. What is the adjective of city name?
2. How do you turn a name into an adjective?
3. What is the demonym for Sydney?

What is the adjective of city name?

City doesn't really have an adjective form. There is the adjective urban, which literally means “of a town”, but that's a town not a city. Specific cities may have adjectives based on their names. For example, Mancunian means “of Manchester”, Liverpudlian means “of Liverpool”, etc.

How do you turn a name into an adjective?

The simplest way, and the best general rule, to turn a noun into an adjective is to add suffixes to the end of the root word. The most common suffixes used to create adjectives are -ly, -able, -al, -ous, -ary, -ful, -ic, -ish, -less, -like and -y. Other noun to adjective suffixes can include -ial, and -ical.

What is the demonym for Sydney?

The Macquarie Dictionary, for instance, lists two demonyms for Adelaide (Adelaidian, Adelaidean), for Melbourne (Melburnian, Melbournian), and for Sydney (Sydneysider, Sydneyite), but only one for Brisbane (Brisbanite), Canberra (Canberran) and Perth (Perthite).