Hokkien pronouns
This article possibly contains original research. (August 2017) |
Pronoun | |
Hàn-jī | 代名詞 |
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Pe̍h-ōe-jī | Tāi-bêng-sû |
Tâi-lô | tāi-bîng-sû |
Bbánpìng | dâibbíngsú |
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 | |||||
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Chinese character | vernacular / colloquial | literary | Chinese character | vernacular / colloquial | literary | |
First person | 我 | góa | ngó͘ | 阮 | goán / gún (exclusive) | - |
俺 | án (possessive determiner) | - | 咱 | lán (inclusive) | - | |
Second person | 汝 | lí | lú | ��� | lín | - |
Third person | 伊 | i | i |