Editing Colloquial Finnish (section)

=== Pronoun usage ===
Personal pronouns are used extensively in spoken Finnish whereas in formal forms the pronoun is often optional (indicated in brackets in this article). Furthermore, the pronouns themselves in spoken Finnish are different from those used in formal Finnish.

Personal pronouns {{lang|fi|mä}} and {{lang|fi|sä}} are used extensively in colloquial Finnish in place of {{lang|fi|minä}} and {{lang|fi|sinä}} ('I' and singular 'you'). The pronouns {{lang|fi|se}} and {{lang|fi|ne}}, which in the formal language are used only as non-human personal pronouns meaning ('it' and plural 'they'), are used in the spoken language as personal pronouns (which in the formal language would be {{lang|fi|hän}} ('he', 'she' and singular 'they') and {{lang|fi|he}} (plural 'they').

See the tables below for examples.