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Latest revision as of 00:28, 19 April 2013 [edit] English Wikipedia [edit] Etymology From Middle English yes, yis, from Old English ġēse, ġīse, ġȳse, *ġīese ("yes, of course, so be it"), equivalent to ġēa ("yes", "so") + sī(e) ("may it be"). Compare yea. [edit] Pronunciation [edit] Particle yes - A word used to show agreement or acceptance.
- Yes, you are correct.
- Yes, you may go play outside now.
- Yes, sir, we have your package right here.
- A word used to indicate disagreement or dissent in reply to a negative statement.
- It was not my fault we lost the race.
- Oh, yes, it was!
[edit] Synonyms - Dialect or archaic forms: ay, aye, yea, yassuh
- Nautical, military, telecommunications: affirmative
- Colloquial or slang forms: ya, yah, yeah, yeh, yep, yeppers, yup, yuppers, yus, ahuh, mhm, uh huh.
[edit] Antonyms - Standard form: no
- Nautical, military, telecommunications: negative
- Dialect or archaic forms: nay
- Colloquial or slang forms: ixnay, nah, naw, nope
[edit] Derived terms [edit] Translations word used to indicate agreement or acceptance - Afrikaans: ja (af)
- Albanian: po (sq)
- Aleut: aang
- Alutiiq: aa'a
- American Sign Language: S@Side Nod
- Arabic: نعم (ar) (náʿam, naʿm)
- Egyptian Arabic: أيوة ('áywa), ايوه ('áywa), اه ('áa)
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܐܝܢ ('ēn)
- Armenian: այո (hy) (ayo) (polite), հա (hy) (ha) (informal)
- Aromanian: ie (rup)
- Asturian: sí (ast)
- Aymara: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: bəli (az)
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: bai (eu)
- Belarusian: так (be) (tak), да (be) (da)
- Bengali: জি (bn) (ji) (formal), হ্যাঁ (bn) (hêñ) (informal)
- Bulgarian: да (bg) (da)
- Burmese: ဟုတ်ကဲ့ (my) (hokkè.), အင်း (my) (in:)
- Catalan: sí (ca)
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵢⴰⵀ (yah)
- Chamicuro: eje
- Chechen: хIаъ (hah)
- Cherokee: ᎥᎥ (chr) (vv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 是 (cmn) (shì), 對 (cmn), 对 (cmn) (duì); (repeating the verb/attribute used in the question to mean "yes" -你知道吗？ -知道)
- Choctaw: ome
- Corsican: iè (co), sì (co)
- Czech: ano (cs), jo (cs) (colloquial)
- Danish: ja (da)
- Dutch: ja (nl)
- Esperanto: jes (eo)
- Estonian: jah (et)
- Faroese: ja (fo)
- Fijian: io (fj)
- Finnish: kyllä (fi)
- French: oui (fr)
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: si (gl)
- Georgian: დიახ (ka) (diax), კი (ka) (ki), ჰო (ka) (ho), ხო (ka) (xo)
- German: ja (de)
- Greek: ναι (el) (nai)
- Ancient: ναί (nai)
- Greenlandic: aap (kl)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: אין ('ēn)
- Hebrew: כֵּן (he) (ken)
- Hindi: हाँ (hi) (hā̃), जी (hi) (jī), जी हाँ (hi) (jī hā̃)
- Hungarian: igen (hu)
- Icelandic: já (is)
- Ido: yes (io)
- Indonesian: ya (id)
- Irish: Not used; affirmative form of the verb is used instead.
- Italian: sì (it)
- Japanese: (polite) はい (ja) (hai), ええ (ja) (ē), (informal) うん (ja) (un, n̄)
- Kannada: ಹೌದು (kn) (haudu)
- Kazakh: иә (kk) (iyä)
- Khmer: (female speaker) ច៎ា (km) (jaa), (male speaker) បាទ (km) (baat), (informal) អើ (km) ('aə), (very informal) អឺ (km) ('əɨ)
- Korean: 네 (ko) (ne), 예 (ko) (ye)
- Kyrgyz: ооба (ky) (ooba), макул (ky) (makul)
- Lao: ແມ່ນ (lo) (mëën), ແມ່ນແລ້ວ (lo) (mëën-lëëw)
- Latgalian: nui, tai
- Latin: sic (la)
- Latvian: jā (lv)
- Lithuanian: taip (lt)
- Lojban: go'i (jbo)
- Luganda: yee
- Luo: ee
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
| | - Macedonian: да (mk) (da)
- Malay: ya (ms), (informal) ha'ah (ms)
- Malayalam: ശരി (ml) (śari)
- Maltese: iva (mt)
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: тийм (mn) (tijm)
- Navajo: aooʼ
- Neapolitan: eine, sine
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: ja (no)
- Novial: yes
- Occitan: òc (oc)
- Old English: gēa (ang)
- Old French: oïl
- Old Saxon: ja
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Palauan: chochoi
- Pashto: هو (ps) (ho)
- Persian: بله (fa) (bale), آره (fa) (âre)
- Polish: tak (pl), (informal) no (pl)
- Portuguese: sim (pt)
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Quechua: ari (qu)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Rapa Nui: eee
- Romanian: da (ro)
- Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) gea (rm), (Sursilvan) gie (rm), (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) ea (rm), (Puter, Vallader) schi (rm), (Puter, Vallader) hei (rm), (Vallader) hai (rm)
- Russian: да (ru) (da)
- Samoan: ioe (sm)
- Saterland Frisian: jee
- Scots: aye
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: да (sh)
- Roman: da (sh)
- Sicilian: sè (scn)
- Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
- Silesian: ja
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: ඔවු (si) (owu)
- Slovak: áno (sk), hej (sk) (colloquial), no (informal)
- Slovene: dà (sl), já (sl)
- Spanish: sí (es)
- Swahili: ndiyo (sw)
- Swedish: ja (sv)
- Tagalog: oo (tl), (formal) opo (tl)
- Tajik: ҳа (tg) (ha), бале (tg) (bale), ори (tg) (ori)
- Tamil: ஆமாம் (ta) (āmām)
- Taos: hą
- Tatar: әйе (tt) (äye)
- Telugu: అవును (te) (awunu), ఔను (te) (aunu)
- Thai: ใช่ (th) (châi), ครับ (th) (kráp) (male speaker), ค่ะ (th) (kâ) (female speaker), ถูก (th) (tòok), ถูกต้อง (th) (tòok dtông) (formal), อืม (th) (eum) (informal)
- Tok Pisin: ya (tpi), yes (tpi), yesa (tpi)
- Tongan: io (to)
- Turkish: evet (tr)
- Turkmen: hawa (tk)
- Ukrainian: так (uk) (tak)
- Urdu: ہاں (ur) (hā̃), جی (ur) (jī), جی ہاں (ur) (jī hā̃)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: ha (uz), bo'pti (uz)
- Vietnamese: vâng (vi) (Northern Vietnam), dạ (vi) (Southern Vietnam), có (vi) (in response to a question containing có), phải (vi) (in response to a question containing (có) phải), được (vi) (in response to a question containing được không), rồi (vi) (in response to a question containing chưa), ờ (vi) (informal), ừ (vi) (informal)
- Volapük: si (vo)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- West Frisian: ja
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: יאָ (yi) (yo)
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
- ǃXóõ: ʻée, ʻíi, ʻē êh
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word used to indicate disagreement or dissent in reply to a negative statement | | | - Norwegian: jo (no)
- Pashto: هو (ps) (ho)
- Persian: چرا (fa) (čerâ)
- Polish: ależ tak (pl), owszem (pl)
- Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) bain (rm), (Sursilvan) bein (rm), (Sutsilvan) bagn (rm), (Surmiran) gea bagn (rm), (Puter, Vallader) bainschi (rm), (Puter, Vallader) bainschi hei (rm), (Vallader) bainschi hai (rm)
- Russian: ещё как (ru) (ješčó kak), наоборот (ru) (naoborót)
- Slovene: dà (sl), já (sl)
- Spanish: por el contrario (es)
- Swedish: jo (sv)
- Vietnamese: có chứ (vi) (in response to a statement containing không có), được chứ (vi) (in response to a statement containing không được)
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked - Alabama: yamá, yamma
- Albanian: po
- Arabic: أجَل ('ájal)
- Aymara: jisa
- Bengali: হ্যাঁ (ɦæ̃)
- Bikol Central: oo
- Breton: ya (1), eo, geo (2)
- Cebuano: oo
- Chickasaw: hohmi, ah
- Coptic: ⲀϩⲀ (áha), ⲥⲉ (sa)
- Garifuna: ayé (used by males), ayí (used by females)
- Guaraní: heẽ
- Hiligaynon: huo
- Ilocano: wen
- Interlingua: si
- Inuktitut: ᐄ
- Kapampangan: wa
- Kurdish: belê, erê, a, e, ئا, بهڵێ
- Latin: ita, ita vero, sic, recte
| | - Malagasy: eny
- Maléku Jaíka: áo
- Maori: ae, āe
- Sardinian: eja
- Serbo-Croatian: да (sh) (da)
- Sinhalese: ඔවු (si) (owu)
- Swahili: ndiyo, sawa
- Tagalog: oo
- Tausug: huun
- Tupinambá: pá (said by men); e'ẽ (said by men and women)
- Tz'utujil: ken
- Welsh: ie (ee-ya; commonly used in English, shown as yeah)
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[edit] Usage notes - In Old and Middle English, yes was a more forceful affirmative than yea.
- An example of yes used to disagree with a statement: the questions "You don't want it, do you?" and "Don't you want it?" are answered by "yes" if the respondent does want the item, and "no" if not. Many languages use a specific word for this purpose; see translation table above.
[edit] Interjection yes! - Used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement.
- Our second goal of the match! Yes!
[edit] Antonyms [edit] Translations expression of pleasure, joy or great excitement yes (plural yeses or yesses) - An affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
- Was that a yes?
- A vote of support or in favor/favour of something.
- The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".
[edit] Synonyms - (answer that shows agreement or acceptance): aye, yea
- (vote in support): aye, yea
[edit] Antonyms - (answer that shows agreement or acceptance): no, nay
- (vote in support): nay
[edit] Translations answer that shows agreement or acceptance yes (third-person singular simple present yeses, present participle yessing, simple past and past participle yessed) - (colloquial, transitive) To agree with, to affirm, to approve.
- Did he yes the veto?
- 1972 Oct, John Barth, "Perseid", Harper's Magazine, page 79:
- "That's really what you wanted?" I yessed both; ...
- (slang) To attempt to flatter someone by habitually agreeing.
[edit] Synonyms (first meaning): agree, consent [edit] Translations attempt to flatter by agreeing [edit] Derived terms
[edit] Asturian yes - second-person singular present indicative of ser
[edit] Etymology From English yes. [edit] Pronunciation [edit] Interjection yes - (colloquial) yes!
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Adverb yes - yes
[edit] Antonyms
[edit] Tok Pisin [edit] Etymology From English yes. [edit] Adverb yes - yes (all senses)
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