beliau

Indonesian

bêliau (third-person singular pronoun)

Indonesian personal pronouns
		singular	plural
1st person exclusive	regular	aku, saya¹	kami
	enclitic	-ku	-
	proclitic	ku-	-
1st person inclusive		-	kita
2nd person	regular	kamu, Anda², kau³	kalian, Anda², Anda sekalian², Anda semua²
2nd person	enclitic	-mu	-
3rd person	regular	dia, beliau⁴, ia³	mereka
3rd person	enclitic	-nya	-
reflexive		diri⁵, diri sendiri
emphatic		sendiri

¹ Polite.
² Formal.
³ Now mostly literary.
⁴ Respectful.

⁵ Sometimes used as an emphatic marker instead of being reflexive.

Notes:

This table only shows personal pronouns that are commonly used in the standard language.
The second person pronouns are often replaced by kinship terms, titles, or the like.
The enclitics are only used obliquely (object or possessor), while the proclitic is only used as a subject.

See each entry for more information.

Uncertain, probably from belia (“young”), from Sanskrit बाल्य (bālya, “relating to children”).

Originally used to refer to someone who the speaker did not want to name. The word undergoes amelioration, but the reduplicated form (beliau-beliau) for plural pronoun still preserved the original meaning of "undesirable third persons" used as pejoration.

beliau (Jawi spelling بلياو)

This table mostly only shows personal pronouns that are commonly used in the standard language and within the Klang Valley area.
The second person pronouns are often replaced by kinship terms, titles, or the like.
The enclitic -nya is only used obliquely (as an object or possessor).
The second person pronoun kamu is usually only used when speaking with younger speakers.

See each entry for more information.

	Singular	Plural
1^st person	saya¹ aku³	kita⁴ kami^{2 & 5} kita orang^{3 & 5}
2^nd person	awak¹ anda² awda⁸ (eng)kau³ kamu³	(2^nd person) + semua⁶ kalian² (eng)kau orang³
3^rd person	dia ia beliau⁷ -nya²	mereka² dia orang³