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Hokkien pronouns

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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.

Quick facts Hàn-jī, Pe̍h-ōe-jī ...
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Basic personal pronouns

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

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List of Hokkien personal pronouns

More information Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Hàn-jī ...

Archaic personal pronouns

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Suffixes

Suffixes are added to pronouns to make them plural.

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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.

More information Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Hàn-jī ...
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