Cantonese · 8 November 2026 · Pronouns and Possessives
佢
keoi5Jyutping
he / she / it
pronoun
The standard contemporary third-person singular pronoun in Cantonese, used uniformly regardless of grammatical gender for people, animals, or objects.
In a sentence
佢一見到經理就擺出副擦鞋佬死樣，明擺住又想將隻鑊推走啦。
keoi5 jat1 gin3 dou3 ging1 lei5 zau6 baai2 ceot1 fu3 caat3 haai4 lou2 sei2 joeng2, ming4 baai2 zyu6 jau6 soeng2 zoeng1 zek3 wok6 teoi1 zau2 laa1.
The moment he sees the manager, he puts on that typical bootlicking look; he's clearly trying to shift the blame onto someone else again.
