It is not possible to perfect your Teochew until you know all the three persons as shown in the chart below.
We, excluding the listener, is said differently by people from different areas. People from Teochew 潮州市 will say ung2, people from TêngHai 澄海 will say ng2, people from Swatow 汕頭市 will say uang2.
As for you [second person], people from Dio'Io 潮陽 will say lu2 and this is the closest to Middle Chinese. Hokkien people say "li" and other parts of our homeland say "le2".
You may then say how about nang5 人 as in ren2 人 in Mandarin - well nang5 人 just mean people and thus not included in this set of three persons.
|
English |
Teochew |
Mandarin |
First
Person |
I |
ua2 我 |
wo3
我 |
we:
excluding the listener |
uang2
ung2 ng2 阮 |
wo3men5
我們 |
|
we:
including the listener |
nang2 俺 |
zan2men5
咱們 |
|
Second
Person |
you
|
le2 lu2 汝 |
ni3
你 妳 |
you
all [plural] |
ning2
恁 |
ni3men5
你們 |
|
Third
Person |
he,
she, it |
i1 伊 |
ta1
他 她 |
they |
i1nang7 伊儂 |
ta1men5
他們 它們 她們 |
|
other
people |
bag8nang7
別儂 |
bie2ren5
別人 |
|
everybody
|
dai6gê1
大家 |
da4jia1
大家 |
nang5 人 means people
nang7 儂 has to have another character in front of it referring to other people or they
It took me a long time to understand this over 15 years ago when I started learning Teochew.
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