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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Reduced form of you. Compare Dutch je, reduced/unstressed form of jij (“you”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ya
- Nonstandard spelling of you.
- 2011, Byron Douglas, chapter 3, in A Journey Through the Life of an Anti-Social[64–65], →ISBN:
- Lola got a shocked look on her face then said, “Ya need to stop actin' jealous if ya aint, and ya can't control what I do. Ya aint my daddy and ya aint my man. I'll see ya tomorrah after work if ya want. Just give me a call, ya have my number”.
Usage notes[edit]
Only used in unstressed contexts.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Apparently from German ja and cognates in other Germanic languages; related to English yeah.
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ya
Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle English ya, from Old English ġēa, iā (“yea, yes”). More at yea.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ya (not comparable)
- (Britain dialectal, West Country, Northern England, Scotland) yea; yes
- 1806, Jamieson, Pop. Ballads:
- 'Ya, wilt thou!' said Wallace, 'then tak thee that, […] '
- 1894, W. G. Stevenson, Puddin' iii.:
- Ya, auld man, ye ken fine ye wad like me.
- 1896, Ackworth, Clog Shop Chron.:
- Ya, bur 'ee did, […]
- 1806, Jamieson, Pop. Ballads:
Etymology 4[edit]
Variation of hyah.
Interjection[edit]
ya
Etymology 5[edit]
Determiner[edit]
ya
- Nonstandard spelling of your.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 6[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya (plural yas)
Translations[edit]
a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet "Я/я"
Anagrams[edit]
Abui[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya
References[edit]
- František Kratochvíl, A grammar of Abui: a Papuan language of Alor (2007)
- František Kratochvíl, Benidiktus Delpada, Abui-Indonesian-English Dictionary (2008)
Angkamuthi[edit]
Verb[edit]
ya
- (Yadhaykenu) throw
References[edit]
- Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 537
Anguthimri[edit]
Verb[edit]
ya
- (transitive, Mpakwithi) to give
- (transitive, Mpakwithi) to bring
References[edit]
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189
Bilbil[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya
Further reading[edit]
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Breton[edit]
Particle[edit]
ya
- yes, word used to show agreement or acceptance.
- Ya, gwir eo! ― Yes, that's correct!
Chamorro[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
ya
Usage notes[edit]
Used to indicate causation. To connect two similar words or phrases the alternate yan.
Chavacano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ya
- Indicates the past tense.
Chickasaw[edit]
Verb[edit]
ya (stative, irregular)
- to be (something)
Usage notes[edit]
- It cannot be used by itself and must always have a preceding noun that names what it or the person "is".
- It can only be used with a Class II subject marker.
- Ya is never used with N prefixes.
- It can be used with verb suffixes such as -tok, -taam, -a'chi, etc.
- For sentences where a Class II subject marker is not needed or cannot be used, then the verb root oo can be used instead.
- For the future tense, a'chi can be used as a standalone word rather than a suffix completely replacing the use of a verb and having the meaning "will be". Similarly, a'ni, "might be" could possibly work in a similar fashion, replacing the presence of an explicit verb as well, although it is not normally used in sentences expressing being something.
- The prefix hoo- is never used with any forms of the verb "to be" (ya, oo, a'chi).
- To ask questions such as "Is it a/an....", see the entries for the noun suffixes -to̠ (used after consonants) and -hto̠ (used after vowels).
Synonyms[edit]
Eastern Cham[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Chamic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
Noun[edit]
ya (Cham spelling ꨢ)
- water (clear liquid H₂O)
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ya
See also[edit]
Gedaged[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya
Further reading[edit]
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Ido[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ya
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Dutch ja. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ya
Particle[edit]
ya
- Vocative particle (followed by name): o
- Ya Allah!
- O God!
- Ya Allah!
Further reading[edit]
- “ya” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
ya
Kesawai[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya
Further reading[edit]
- Carol Priestley, Talking about space in Koromu
- Carol Priestley, Social categories, shared experience, reciprocity and endangered meanings: examples from Koromu
Kou[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya
Further reading[edit]
- Johannes A. Z'graggen, A Comparative Word list of the Rai Coast Languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Linguistics (1980) (as Sinsauru)
Laboya[edit]
Verb[edit]
ya
- to eat
References[edit]
- Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “ya”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 103
Lingala[edit]
Preposition[edit]
ya
Usage notes[edit]
In colloquial Lingala, this does not vary depending on noun class.
Declension[edit]
| Class | Singular | Class | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wa | 2 | ba |
| 3 | mwa | 4 | mya |
| 5 | lya (za) | 6 | ma |
| 7 | ya | 8 | bya |
| 9 | ya | 10 | ya |
| 11 | la (lwa) | ||
| 14 | bwa | ||
Malay[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ya
- yes
- Vocative particle (followed by name):
- Ya Allah!
- O God!
- Ya Allah!
- grammatical particle for confirmation
- Dia orang kaya ya?
- Is he that rich?
- Dia orang kaya ya?
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
ya (Zhuyin ˙ㄧㄚ)
ya
- Nonstandard spelling of yā.
- Nonstandard spelling of yá.
- Nonstandard spelling of yǎ.
- Nonstandard spelling of yà.
Usage notes[edit]
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Marik[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya
Further reading[edit]
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Mindiri[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya
Further reading[edit]
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Northern Ndebele[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Bantu *-gɪ̀a.
Verb[edit]
-ya
- to go to, towards [+locative]
Inflection[edit]
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Northern Sotho[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Bantu *-gɪ̀a.
Verb[edit]
ya
- to go
Nzadi[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
yǎ`
- you (second-person singular pronoun)
See also[edit]
Nzadi personal pronouns
Pali[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative scripts
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ya m
- (relative) who, which, that
Declension[edit]
Declension table of "ya" (masculine)
Pronoun[edit]
ya n
- (relative) which, that
- (relative) (duplicated) whatever
- c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar][1] (in Pali), page 250; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
- अथ सब्बासं विभत्तीनं यानि यानि पुब्बानि छ पदानि तानि तानि परस्सपदसञ्ञानि होन्ति।
- Atha sabbāsaṃ vibhattīnaṃ yāni yāni pubbāni cha padāni, tāni tāni parassapadasaññāni honti.
- Then whatever are the first six endings of all the endings, they are called the active endings.
Declension[edit]
Declension table of "ya" (neuter)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Probably from the pronunciation of a syllable consisting only of the letter.
Noun[edit]
ya m
- the Pali letter 'y'
- c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar][2] (in Pali), page 4; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
- क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, स, ह, ळ, ं। इति व्यञ्जन नाम होन्ति।
- Ka, kha, ga, gha, ṅa, ca, cha, ja, jha, ña, ṭa, ṭha, ḍa, ḍha, ṇa, ta, tha, da, dha, na, pa, pha, ba, bha, ma, ya, ra, la, va, sa, ha, ḷa, aṃ, iti vyañjanā nāma honti.
- 'k', 'kh', 'g', 'gh', 'ṅ', 'c', 'ch', 'j', 'jh', 'ñ, 'ṭ', 'ṭh', 'ḍ', 'ḍh', 'ṇ', 't', 'th', 'd', 'dh', 'n', 'p', 'ph', 'b', 'bh', 'm', 'y', 'r', 'l', 'v', 's', 'h', 'ḷ' and 'ṃ', these are the consonants by name.
- c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar][3] (in Pali), page 12; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
- यो जस्स यथा-नियंपुत्तं।
- Yo jassa yathā- niyaṃputtaṃ.
- 'Y' from 'j' as in 'niyaṃputtaṃ'.
- c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar][4] (in Pali), page 10; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
- यं एदन्तस्सादेसो॥६॥
- 6. Yaṃ edantassādeso.
- 6. Change of final 'e' to 'y'.
- c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar][5] (in Pali), page 12; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
- को यस्स यथा-सको।
- Ko yassa yathā-sako.
- 'K' from 'y' as in 'sako'.
Declension[edit]
Declension table of "ya" (masculine)
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
“ya”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.
Pennsylvania German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare German ja, Dutch ja, Swedish ja.
Interjection[edit]
ya
Phuthi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Bantu *-gɪ̀a.
Verb[edit]
-ya
- to go to, towards [+locative]
Inflection[edit]
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Portuguese[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ya
- Alternative form of iá
Sotho[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Bantu *-gɪ̀a.
Verb[edit]
ya
- to go
Southern Ndebele[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Bantu *-gɪ̀a.
Verb[edit]
-ya
- to go to, towards [+locative]
Inflection[edit]
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin iam. Compare Portuguese já, French déjà and Italian già.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ya
- now
- already, yet
- Ya lo hice. ― I already did it.
- in the near future; soon
- immediately
- Synonym: ahora mismo
- anymore; no longer
- (emphatic) emphatic (similar to the use of English "so" or "oh" as an interjection)
- ¡Ya lo sé! ― I know!
- (in negatives) only
- no ya... ― not only...
- (before pero) yes
- ya, pero... ― yes, but...
- (before que) since, now
- ya que... ― now that...
Derived terms[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
ya ... ya ...
- first (something) then (something else); first (something), now (something else)
- ¡Ya lluvia ya nieve!
- First rain, now snow!
- whether (something) or (something else)
- ya sol ya lluvia
- whether sun or rain
Interjection[edit]
ya
- come on!, let's go!
- (colloquial) Used to acknowledge or dismiss the previous statement.
- —Sabes que quedamos con Antonio esta tarde. —Ya.
- "You know we're hanging out with Antonio tonight." "I know."
- —No podrás venir, que trabajas ese día. —Ya, pero cerramos temprano los viernes.
- "You can't come, you're working that day." "Right, but we close early on Fridays."
Further reading[edit]
- “ya” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swahili[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Particle[edit]
ya
- N class inflected form of -a (singular only).
- Mi class inflected form of -a.
- Ma class inflected form of -a.
Usage notes[edit]
Follows adverbs to make them function as prepositions.
Tabaa Zapotec[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya
Tagalog[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ya
- expression used to drive cattle
Synonyms[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya
Tswana[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Bantu *-gɪ̀a.
Verb[edit]
ya
- to go
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
ya
References[edit]
- “ya”, in Güncel Türkçe Sözlük [Contemporary Turkish Dictionary][6], Türk Dil Kurumu, accessed 13 August 2020
Venda[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Bantu *-gɪ̀a.
Verb[edit]
ya
- to go
Volapük[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish ya (“already”).
Adverb[edit]
ya
Warao[edit]
Noun[edit]
ya
Synonyms[edit]
White Hmong[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] eint.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
ya
- to fly
Xhosa[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Bantu *-gɪ̀a.
Verb[edit]
-ya
- (intransitive) to go to, towards [+locative]
Inflection[edit]
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Yami[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia. Compare Indonesian ia, Maori ia.
Pronoun[edit]
ya
Zulu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Bantu *-gɪ̀a.
Verb[edit]
-ya
- (intransitive) to go to, towards [+locative]
Inflection[edit]
References[edit]
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “ya”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “ya”
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