I’m learning Russian and I don’t know what it is for that, but in German I’ve seen “xier”, “sier”, and “dey”. I might use “dey/dem”.
I’m learning Russian and I don’t know what it is for that, but in German I’ve seen “xier”, “sier”, and “dey”. I might use “dey/dem”.
Disclaimer: I’m learning Japanese & I don’t know Chinese.
It looks like the original character for the 3rf person pronoun is now the masculine pronoun & the female pronoun is made by substituting the person component (人, I don’t know how to type the left-component form) with the woman component (女).
他 isn’t the pronoun for masculine third person. It’s third person, period. Neutral gender if one has to ask.
Traditionally the character used to mean “that” is 彼. Apparently it’s also gender-neutral.
That’s exactly how to understand them
Does Chinese only have the one 1st person pronoun?
As far as I know, yes in modern Chinese. However if you include ancient Chinese there’s also 吾