Hokkien pronouns
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.Suffixes
Suffixes are added to pronouns to make them plural.| Pe̍h-ōe-jī | Hàn-jī | Level of speech | Gender | Examples | Notes |
| lâng | 儂 | informal | neutral |
| 儂 is typically suffixed for plural in Southeast Asian Hokkien dialects, but some of them like ka-kī-lâng is also used in Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien. |
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.| Pe̍h-ōe-jī | Hàn-jī | Meaning |
| che | 此 / 即 / 這 | this thing |
| he | 彼 / 許 | that thing |
| tó-chi̍t-ê | 佗一个 | which thing? |
| chit-ê | 此个 / 即个 / 這个 | this |
| chia-ê | 遮个 | these |
| hit-ê | 彼个 / 許个 | that |
| hia-ê | 遐个 | those |
| chia | 遮 | here |
| hia | 遐 | there |
| tó-ūi | 佗位 | where |