Hokkien pronouns

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Pronoun
Hàn-jī代名詞
Pe̍h-ōe-jīTāi-bêng-sû
Tâi-lôtāi-bîng-sû
Bbánpìngdâibbíngsú

Hokkien pronouns pose some difficulty to speakers of English due to their complexity. The Hokkien language use a variety of differing demonstrative and interrogative pronouns, and many of them are only with slightly different meanings.

Basic personal pronouns[]

The plural personal pronouns tend to be nasalized forms of the singular ones.

Singular Plural
Chinese character vernacular / colloquial literary Chinese character vernacular / colloquial literary
First person góa ngó͘ goán / gún (exclusive) -
án (possessive determiner) - lán (inclusive) -
Second person ��� lín -
Third person i i
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