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Some basic Chinese Pronouns_basic Chinese.



Chinese pronouns (Chinese: 代词; pinyin: dàicí) differ somewhat from their English counterparts. 

For instance, there is no differentiation in the spoken language between "he", "she" and "it" (though a written difference was introduced after contact with the West), and pronouns remain the same whether they are the subject or object of a sentence.

Chinese Language  further lacks a distinction between the possessive adjective ("my") and possessive pronoun ("mine"); both are formed by appending the particle 的 de. Some honorifics exist in the language, but modern Chinese, especially in the spoken language.





There are just three basic Chinese pronouns in spoken Mandarin:

I, me - wǒ - 我
You - nǐ - 你
He, Him / She, Her / It - tā
Plurals

Plurals are formed by adding 'men' at the end of the pronoun:

We, Us - wǒ men - 我們
You - nǐ men - 你們
They, Them - tā men - 他們
When speaking to elders or someone in authority, it is more polite to address them formally with nín 您 instead of the less formal nǐ - 你.

Written Forms

He, she, and it all have the same sound - tā, but they use different characters for writing:

he - 他
she - 她
it - 它
In spoken Mandarin, the context of the sentence will usually (but not always!) tell you whether the speaker is referring to a man, a woman or a thing.