Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?
Edit: Thanks for all your answers, especially the wholesome ones and those patient enough to explain it thoroughly. Since we (South Americans) and you (North Americans) use different models/conventions of continent boundaries, it makes sense for you to go by “Americans”, while it doesn’t for us.
Estadounidenses
Thats Mexico I think.
“estados unidense” = states united (Spanish and Portuguese often put the adjective after the affected noun)
estados unidos*
Mexico’s official name is Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. I don’t think that would work well.
Yeah but estadounidense is literally the spanish word for someone from the USA.
It would be Estadounidense Americano or Estadounidense Mexicano
No, it wouldn’t be. In Spanish North Americans are “estadounidenses” and Mexican are, “mexicanos”.