yo

See also YO, yö, yō, yΩ, and YΩ

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /jəʊ/, SAMPA: /j@U/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• (US) IPA: /joʊ/, SAMPA: /joU/
• Homophone: yo

Interjection

yo

1. (slang) A greeting similar to hi.

   Yo Paulie! How's it going?

2. (slang) An interjection similar to hey.

   Yo, check this out!

3. (military slang) Present! Here!

   Sergeant: Smith? Private Smith: Yo!

Contraction

yo

1. (African American Vernacular) contraction of you and are

   Yo a fool.

Pronoun

yo

1. (colloquial) shortened form of your.

   Yo sandwich only has bacon in it. Want some ketchup on that?

2. (Baltimore) third-person singular, familiar

   Yo was tuckin' in his shirt! (Stotko and Troyer 2007)

Synonyms

• (greeting): hey, hi; see also Category:Greetings
• (interjection): hey

Anagrams

• oy

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Amuzgo

Adjective

yo

1. with

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Haitian Creole

Article

yo pl.

1. the

Usage notes

This word is only used in its article sense when it modifies a plural noun.

See also

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• nan
• sa a (emphatic value)
• yon (indef. art.)

Pronoun

yo

1. they
2. them

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Japanese

Syllable

yo

1. The hiragana syllable よ (yo) or the katakana syllable ヨ (yo) in Hepburn romanization.

Romaji

yo (よ)

1. よ: sentence emphasis particle
2. 余: over, more than

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Ladino

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego.

Pronoun

yo (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ייו)

1. I

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Lingala

yo

Pronoun

yo

1. The second-person singular pronoun; you.

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Mandarin

Romanization

yo (form of yo0 or yo5)

1. 哟, 喲: ah, final particle

Romanization

yo

1. Nonstandard spelling of yō.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the 4 critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin eo, from Latin ego; akin to Greek εγώ, Sanskrit aham.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ʝo̞]
• IPA: [ɟʝo̞]

Pronoun

yo

1. First-person singular pronoun in the nominative case. I.

See also

    Spanish pronouns

First person: singular: yo, mí, me plural: nosotros, nosotras, nos Second person: tuteo: tú, ti, te voseo: vos, te formal: usted, ustedes, le, les familiar plural: vosotros, vosotras, ustedes, os, les

Third person: masculine: él, ellos, lo, le, los, les feminine: ella, ellas, la, le, las, les neuter: ello, lo, le Demonstrative: este, esta, esto, estos, estas ese, esa, eso, esos, esas aquel, aquella, aquello, aquellos, aquellas

Usage notes

• When more pronouns are included in the same sentence, it is considered impolite to say the pronoun yo at first; it must be the last one, and tú must be said after absent (this applies also for ti and mí):
  • Iremos Rosa, tú y yo, "Rosa, you and I will go"

Noun

yo m. (plural yos)

1. In psychoanalysis, Freud's concept of the ego.