Quote Originally Posted by Yulia65 View Post

English also has substantivized adjectives:
-- Daniel Boone met a bunch of THE Indian BRAVES (from the adjective "brave"),
-- THE FRENCH (THE RUSIANS, THE CHINESE) will have their elections next Sunday.
-- THE RICH and THE POOR,
-- THE WHITES and THE SAVAGES...

I hope it helps. Blessings to you in mastering Russian!
In English it's a different process, I think. English loves conversion, but not from adjectives to nouns. Russian has only one productive way of conversion - from adjectives to nouns.