keoi5 dei6佢地渠地

Jyutpingkeoi5 dei6

Yalekéuih deih

Definition

They or them.

colloquialpeople

How it's used

The character 佢 is the standard way to write the third person pronoun in Cantonese. While some people write 佢哋 to be more precise about the plural, 佢地 is extremely common in casual text and messaging. It functions as both the subject and the object of a sentence without changing form.

Examples

keoi5佢dei6地gam1今jat6日heoi3去zo2咗bin1邊aa4呀？

Where did they go today?

ngo5我m4唔soeng2想tung4同keoi5佢dei6地jat1一cai4齊sik6食faan6飯。

I don't want to eat with them.

Common phrases

keoi5佢dei6地loeng5兩go3個

the two of them

tung4同keoi5佢dei6地gong2講

tell them

Common mistake

Avoid using 他們 or 她們 in spoken Cantonese, as these are Mandarin forms that sound unnatural and overly formal in a local context. Stick to 佢地 for all genders.