Third-person Forms of Kinship Terms
Some kinship terms can be modified to a third person form by pronouncing them in the ngã tone (mid rising, glottalised; indicated in writing by a tilde (~) over the vowel) instead of a ngang (level) tone. Examples include ãnh, ỗng, and cỗ. This is only possible for terms that are pronounced in the ngang tone. These third-person forms are never used to refer to relatives in the third-person.
More generally, third-person pronouns are created by appending ấy, as in bà ấy.
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