- 我個兒子 ’ngú kú‘ ní ’tsz, my son.
- 儂个宗祖 nóng‘ kú‘ ’tsú tsóng, your ancestors.
- 第塊地皮是㑚个 tí k’wé dí‘ bí ’zz ná‘ kú‘, this piece of land is yours.
Obs. i. In mandarin, 的 tih. The southern Fúh-kien dialect, besides having two distinct plural forms for the personal pronouns 恁 ’lin, you, 咱 ’lán, we has also separate possessive forms for all the three persons 恁 ’lin, your; 阮 ’gwan, mine, 咱 ’lán, ours; 因 in, their, his. The intervening particle 個 is thus rendered unnecessary for that dialect. It is however often inserted. When these forms ’gwán, ’lin, in, are compared with the personal pronouns 我 你 伊 ’gwá, ’li or ’leu, í, the termination n looks extremely like an appendage to the root in each case.
Obs. ii. After the personal pronouns, when a preposition of motion precedes, a substantive of place is required; e.g. 到我喊頭來 tau‘ ’ngú han‘ deu lé, come to me. This is generally true in all instances, where place is left to be understood in English. 㑚塲好個狗 ná‘ dzáng hau‘ kú‘ ’keu, one of your dogs. It will be seen that the pronouns in these examples are possessive, though in the former, the corresponding English word is a personal pronoun.
Distributive pronouns. 198. The words corresponding to our distributive pronouns, each, every, etc. are the following 每逐各 ’mé, dzóh, k’oh.
每 ’mé, each.
- 每人撥一塊 ’mé niun peh ih k’wé‘, give one piece to each.
- 每家兩个人 ’mé ká ’liáng kú‘ niun, in each family there are two.
逐 dzóh, each in succession.
- 逐一个殺一干 dzóh ih kú‘ sah ih kûn, let each person kill one.
- 逐日出門一囘 dzóh nyih t’seh mun ih wé‘, go out once day.
- 逐樣菜拔脫一科 dzóh yáng t’sé‘ bah t’eh ih k’ú, of each kind of vegetable, pull up one plant.
- 逐科花採一朶 dzóh k’ú hwó ’t’sé ih ’tú, of each plant pluck one flower.
各 koh, each, every.
- 各樣書買一部 koh yáng‘ sû ’má ih bú‘, buy a book of every sort.
- 各樣顔色要 koh yáng‘ ’ngán suh yau‘, I want every kind of colour.
- 各人良心勿差 koh niun liáng sing veh t’só, men’s consciences tell them what is right.
- 各管各 koh ’kwén koh, each attends to his own affairs.
- 各處風俗不同 koh t’sû‘ fóng zóh peh dóng, different places have different customs.