y

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
Basic Latin	U+0079

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 1.1.1 See also 1.2 Symbol 1.3 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.2.1 Synonyms 2.2.2 Derived terms 2.3 See also 3 Asturian 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Conjunction 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Letter 4.2.1 Usage notes 4.3 See also 5 French 5.1 Letter 5.2 Etymology 5.3 Pronunciation 5.4 Pronoun 5.4.1 Related terms 6 Guaraní 6.1 Noun 7 Italian 7.1 Noun 8 Papiamentu 8.1 Conjunction 9 Spanish 9.1 Etymology 1 9.1.1 Letter 9.2 Etymology 2 9.2.1 Alternative forms 9.2.2 Pronunciation 9.2.3 Conjunction 9.2.4 Usage notes 10 Vietnamese 10.1 Noun 11 Welsh 11.1 Article 11.2 Particle 11.2.1 Usage notes 11.2.2 See also

[edit] Translingual

Wikipedia

[edit] Letter

y lower case (upper case Y)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter Y):  Ýý  Ỳỳ  Ŷŷ  ẙ  Ÿÿ  Ỹỹ  Ẏẏ  Ȳȳ  Ỷỷ  Ỵỵ  Ɏɏ  Ƴƴ  ʏ  Ｙｙ

[edit] Symbol

y

1. (metrology) Symbol for the prefix yocto-.

[edit] See also

Other representations of Y:

NATO phonetic: Yankee Morse code: –·–– Braille: ⠽ ASL Manual: Y

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of Y, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase Y in Fraktur

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /'waɪ/, SAMPA: /"waI/

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• (phoneme): IPA: /i/, /aɪ/, /ə/
• Homophones: why, Wye, wye

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y (lowercase, uppercase Y)

1. Twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, preceded by x and followed by z.
2. Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.
3. (abbreviation) year
4. (TV) Abbreviation for youth content, usually followed by a suggested age.

   Y7

5. (computing) Abbreviation for yes.
6. (informal, abbreviation) why (in text messaging and internet conversations)

[edit] Synonyms

• (denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list): 25, XXV, xxv

[edit] Derived terms

• Y2K

[edit] See also

• With acute: ý
• With diaeresis: ÿ
• With circumflex: ŷ
• With hook: ƴ
• With macron: ȳ
• With dot above: ẏ
• With ring above: ẙ
• With grave: ỳ
• With dot below: ỵ
• With hook above: ỷ
• With tilde: ỹ
• U
• V

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[edit] Asturian

[edit] Etymology

From Latin et.

[edit] Conjunction

y

1. and

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛɪ/

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

[edit] Usage notes

In certain dialects the letter is pronounced similar to IPA: /ji:/. In these dialects, they will actually write the "y" for example modern standard Dutch jij (IPA: /ɛɪ/) becomes "jy" (IPA: /ji:/).

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: x
• Next letter: z

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[edit] French

[edit] Letter

y

1. i-grec (IPA: /igʀɛk/)

[edit] Etymology

Latin ibi.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /i/

[edit] Pronoun

y (adverbial)

1. (To) there

   Nous allons au Mexique. Nous y allons. — “We are going to Mexico. We are going there.”

   Il est dans la maison. Il y est. — “He is in the house. He is there.”

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[edit] Guaraní

[edit] Noun

y

1. water

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

y m. and f. inv.

1. See under Y

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[edit] Papiamentu

[edit] Conjunction

y

1. and

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Letter

y (lower case, upper case Y)

1. The 28th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

[edit] Etymology 2

From old Spanish e, from Latin et

[edit] Alternative forms

• e

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /i/

[edit] Conjunction

y

1. and
2. (in names of number) and

   setenta y seis - “seventy-six”

3. (in arithmetic) plus

   uno y uno son dos - “one plus one is two”

4. (informal) well

   ¡y por supuesto! - “well, of course!”

[edit] Usage notes

• Before words that begin with the /i/ sound, the form e is used instead.

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Noun

y

1. he, him

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[edit] Welsh

[edit] Article

y (after vowels, 'r; before vowels, yr)

1. the.

[edit] Particle

y (after vowels, 'r; before vowels, yr)

1. that (preverbal particle used to mark a subordinate clause)

   Wyt ti'n meddwl y gall hi'n dod? - Do you think that she can come?

   Mae hi'n gwybod y byddet ti'n gwrando arni hi - She knows that you would listen to her

   Dyn ni moyn y bo'n wŷch - We want that it be splendid

   Byddai hi fod wedi bod yn wŷch y baen nhw yma - It would have been splendid that they were to be here

[edit] Usage notes

• y is sometimes omitted in speech.
• y is used to mean 'that' (i.e. mark a subordinate clause) when the subordinate clause begins with an affirmative form of bod not in the present tense, or another affirmative verb in any tense.

[edit] See also

• bod
• mai
• i