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Hokkien pronouns

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Hàn-jī
  
代名詞

Tâi-lô
  
tāi-bîng-sû

Pe̍h-ōe-jī
  
Tāi-bêng-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.

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Basic personal pronouns

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

Suffixes

Suffixes are added to pronouns to make them plural.

Demonstrative and interrogative pronouns

Usually, Hokkien pronouns are prefixed with ch- for thing or things near the speaker, and h- for one or ones distant from the speaker.

References

Hokkien pronouns Wikipedia


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