intj
Meaning 1
Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Examples
- Yeah! We did it!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Colloquial Variant guide
yeah
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/jɛ(ə)/
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/jaː/
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/jæ(.ə)/
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rhymes with -ɛə
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rhymes with -ɛ
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rhymes with -æ
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CMU ARPABET: Y AE1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Pronunciation spelling of year.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, colloquial, pronunciation-spelling
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
particle
Meaning 3
Yes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Examples
- —You wanna get pizza for dinner? —Yeah, all right.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: yes, yep, yup, aye, ya, yea, uh-huh, affirmative, ahuh, ar, arr, ay, da, indeed, indeedy, ja, mhm, oui, yah, yass, yassuh, yayuh, yeah, yeh, yepperoni, yeppers, yeppity, yer, yesh, yessiree, yessum, yiss, yuppers, yuppity, yus
Antonyms: none provided
particle
Meaning 4
Used to express acknowledgment of what was previously said.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Examples
- —You wanna get pizza for dinner? —Yeah, I think I'm gonna have leftovers instead.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
particle
Meaning 5
Used to ascertain the continued attention of the listener.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Examples
- I was walking down the road, yeah, and you know what I saw, yeah? A dog wearing a dress!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: eh
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 6
not only so, but
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: yea
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Colloquial form of yea or yes. Compare nah. Analyzable as yes + -h.
See year.
Across languages
Translations
114 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: yes — expressing joy
- Dutch: jippie — expressing joy
- Finnish: jee — expressing joy
- Finnish: joo — expressing joy
- French: ouais — expressing joy
- Italian: sì — expressing joy
- Italian: vai — expressing joy
- Italian: evvai — expressing joy
- Italian: evviva — expressing joy
- Japanese: やった (yatta) — expressing joy
- Japanese: イェー — expressing joy
- Korean: 아싸 (assa) — expressing joy
- Korean: 앗싸 (atssa) — expressing joy
- Korean: 야르 (yareu) — expressing joy
- Portuguese: é! — expressing joy
- Portuguese: isso aí! — expressing joy
- Portuguese: boa! — expressing joy
- Russian: да! (da!) — expressing joy
- Russian: ура́! (urá!) — expressing joy
- Russian: э-ге́й! (e-géj!) — expressing joy
- Russian: е! (je!) — expressing joy
- Sicilian: forza ḍḍocu! — expressing joy
- Ukrainian: так! (tak!) — expressing joy
- Ukrainian: та! (ta!) — expressing joy
- Azerbaijani: həri — yes
- Catalan: sí — yes
- Chinese Mandarin: 是啊 (shì a) — yes
- Chinese Mandarin: 對啊 /对啊 (duì a) — yes
- Chinese Mandarin: 啊 (à) — yes
- Chinese Mandarin: 嗯 (ǹg) — yes
- Czech: jo — yes
- Czech: no — yes
- Dutch: ja — yes
- Dutch: jawel — yes
- Finnish: joo — yes
- Finnish: juu — yes
- French: ouais — yes
- German: jo — yes
- German: joa — yes
- German: ja — yes
- Greek: ναι (nai) — yes
- Hebrew: כע (ke) — yes
- Hindi: हाँ (hā̃) — yes
- Hungarian: igen — yes
- Hungarian: ja — yes
- Icelandic: já — yes
- Interlingua: si — yes
- Italian: sì — yes
- Italian: già — yes
- Japanese: うん (un) — yes
- Japanese: そう (sō) — yes
- Japanese: ええ (ē) — yes
- Japanese: ああ (ā) — yes
- Kapampangan: awa — yes
- Kapampangan: uwa — yes
- Korean: 응 (eung) — yes
- Korean: 네 (ne) — yes
- Korean: 예 (ye) — yes
- Korean: 어 (eo) — yes
- Lithuanian: taip — yes
- Lithuanian: jo — yes
- Louisiana Creole: wé — yes
- Navajo: wehee — yes
- Norwegian Bokmål: ja — yes
- Norwegian Bokmål: yeah — yes
- Norwegian Bokmål: ja vel — yes
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ja — yes
- Norwegian Nynorsk: yeah — yes
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ja vel — yes
- Occitan: òc — yes
- Old Church Slavonic: ⰵⰹ (ei) — yes
- Dari: آه (āh) — yes
- Dari: بَلی (balē) — yes
- Dari: آری (ārē) — yes
- Iranian Persian: بله (bale) — yes
- Iranian Persian: آره (âre) — yes
- Polish: tak — yes
- Polish: no — yes
- Polish: aha — yes
- Polish: ta — yes
- Portuguese: sim — yes
- Portuguese: é — yes
- Portuguese: iá — yes
- Romanian: da — yes
- Russian: ага́ (agá) — yes
- Russian: ага́ (ahá) — yes
- Russian: угу́ (ugú) — yes
- Russian: угу́ (uhú) — yes
- Russian: так (tak) — yes
- Russian: ну (nu) — yes
- Serbo-Croatian: da da — yes
- Serbo-Croatian: да̑ — yes
- Serbo-Croatian: dȃ — yes
- Sicilian: sì — yes
- Sicilian: sè — yes
- Sicilian: certu — yes
- Slovak: no — yes
- Slovak: hej — yes
- Slovene: ja — yes
- Spanish: sí — yes
- Spanish: seh — yes
- Spanish: sipi — yes
- Spanish: aa — yes
- Spanish: mm — yes
- Swedish: ja — yes
- Thai: เออ (əə) — yes
- Ukrainian: еге́ (ehé) — yes
- Ukrainian: та (ta) — yes
- Urdu: ہاں (hā̃) — yes
- Vietnamese: ừ — yes
- Vietnamese: ờ — yes
- Volapük: si — yes
- Welsh: iah — yes
- Yoruba: bẹ́ẹ̀ ni — yes