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.

List of Hokkien personal pronouns

Archaic personal pronouns

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. {, class="wikitable" , - !Pe̍h-ōe-jī !Hàn-jī !Meaning , - , ''che'' , 此 / 即 / 這 , this thing (near the speaker) , - , ''he'' , 彼 / 許 , that thing (distant from the speaker) , - , ''tó-chi̍t-ê'' , 佗一个 , which thing(s)? , - , ''chit-ê'' , 此个 / 即个 / 這个 , this (near the speaker) , - , ''chia-ê'' , 遮个 , these (near the speaker) , - , ''hit-ê'' , 彼个 / 許个 , that (distant from the speaker) , - , ''hia-ê'' , 遐个 , those (distant from the speaker) , - , ''chia'' , 遮 , here (near the speaker) , - , ''hia'' , 遐 , there (distant from the speaker) , - , ''tó-ūi'' , 佗位 , where

Basic personal pronouns

List of Hokkien personal pronouns

Archaic personal pronouns

Suffixes

Demonstrative and interrogative pronouns

See also