Pronouns

The whole system is three words plus one suffix. The star: 佢 keoi5 means he, she, and it — one pronoun for every third person.

The full set

No subject/object distinction: 我 is both I and me. 佢見我 keoi5 gin3 ngo5 — "he/she sees me"; 我見佢 ngo5 gin3 keoi5 — "I see him/her".
No gender anywhere — even in writing, Cantonese keeps one character 佢. (Mandarin splits 他/她/它 on paper; Cantonese doesn't bother.)

There is no spoken equivalent of French vous or Mandarin 您 nín. You say 你 to your boss and your grandmother. Politeness lives elsewhere:

tool	example
唔該 m4 goi1 — "please / excuse me / thanks (for a service)"	唔該你幫我 m4 goi1 nei5 bong1 ngo5 — "please help me"
soft final particles (呀 aa3, 啦 laa1…)	坐啦 co5 laa1 — "do sit down"
titles instead of 你	陳生 can4 saang1 — "Mr Chan"

No separate my/your/his words — build them:

pattern	example
pronoun + 嘅 ge3	我嘅電話 ngo5 ge3 din6 waa2 — "my phone"
pronoun + classifier + noun (the spoken favourite)	我部電話 ngo5 bou6 din6 waa2 — "my phone"
bare pronoun before people	佢女朋友 keoi5 neoi5 pang4 jau5 — "his girlfriend"

嘅 with nothing after it is "mine/yours/his": 呢本書係我嘅 ni1 bun2 syu1 hai6 ngo5 ge3 — "this book is mine".

If context makes it obvious, leave it out — answers especially:

食咗飯未呀? sik6 zo2 faan6 mei6 aa3 — "(Have you) eaten yet?" 食咗喇 sik6 zo2 laa3 — "(I've) eaten."

Subject and object both drop freely; a fully spelled-out 我… 你… sentence can sound stiff.


自己 zi6 gei2	"self"	我自己嚟 ngo5 zi6 gei2 lai4 — "I'll do it myself"
大家 daai6 gaa1	"everyone (of us)"	大家好 daai6 gaa1 hou2 — "hello everyone"
人哋 jan4 dei6	"other people / they (vague)"	人哋話… jan4 dei6 waa6 — "people say…"

Easy: three pronouns, no case, no gender, no polite form to pick.
Hard: hearing 佢 and not knowing if it's he, she, or it — you genuinely can't tell without context, and Cantonese speakers never miss it.