Colloquial 通俗語 Tung1 zuk6 jyu5 |
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There are formal and informal Cantonese. Usually we have to use formal Cantonese in reading and writing, |
Look at the table of pronoun below: |
Formal Cantonese | Informal Cantonese | English |
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taa1 | He, she , it |
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taa1 mun4 | They |
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ngo5 | I |
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ngo5 mun4 | We |
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nei5 | you |
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nei5 mun4 | you |
We can see that not all the Cantonese words have informal form (bold italics), sometimes, we use formal Cantonese in both speaking and writing.