yeah

See also: þeah

English

Etymology 1

Colloquial form of yea or yes. Compare nah

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ(ə)/, /ˈjæ.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə

Particle

yeah (not comparable)

1. (informal) Yes. [from 19th c.]

Synonyms

• yes, yep, yup, aye, ya, yea, uh-huh

Translations

Note: Many languages have no exact equivalent of this word; in those cases, the translations given here are for yes.

yes

• Azerbaijani: həri
• Catalan: sí (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 是啊 (zh) (shì a), 對啊, 对啊 (duì a), 啊 (zh) (à), 嗯 (zh) (ǹg)

• Czech: jo (cs), no (cs)
• Dutch: ja (nl), jawel (nl)
• Finnish: joo (fi), juu (fi)
• French: ouais (fr)
• German: (yeah) jo (de), joa; (yes) ja (de)
• Greek: ναι (el) (nai)
• Hindi: हाँ (hi) (hā̃)
• Hungarian: igen (hu)
• Icelandic: já (is)
• Interlingua: si (ia)
• Italian: sì (it), già (it)
• Japanese: うん (ja) (un), そう (ja) (sō), ええ (ja) (ē), ああ (ja) (ā)
• Korean: 응 (ko) (eung), 네 (ko) (ne), 예 (ko) (ye), 응 (ko) (eung), 어 (ko) (eo)
• Lithuanian: taip (lt)
• Navajo: wehee

• Norwegian: ja (no), yeah
• Old Church Slavonic: ⰵⰹ (ei)
• Persian: بله‎ (fa) (bale), آره‎ (fa) (âre)
• Polish: tak (pl), no (pl), ta (pl) m (colloquial), aha (pl) m, acha (pl)
• Portuguese: sim (pt), é (pt)
• Russian: ага́ (ru) (agá), ага́ (ru) (ahá), угу́ (ru) (ugú), угу́ (ru) (uhú), так (ru) (tak), ну (ru) (nu)
• Serbo-Croatian: da (sh) da (sh)

  Cyrillic: да̑

  Roman: dȃ (sh)

• Slovak: no
• Slovene: ja (sl)
• Spanish: sí (es)
• Swedish: ja (sv) n
• Thai: เออ (th) (əə)
• Ukrainian: еге́ (ehé)
• Urdu: ہاں‎ (hā̃)
• Vietnamese: ừ (informal), ờ (vi) (informal)
• Volapük: si (vo)
• Welsh: iah

Interjection

yeah

1. Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc.

   Yeah! We did it!

Synonyms

• hurrah, hurray, woohoo, yay, yippee

Derived terms

• yeah right

Translations

expressing joy

• Dutch: yes (nl), jippie (nl)
• Finnish: jee (fi), joo (fi)
• French: ouais (fr)
• Italian: sì (it), vai (it), evvai (it), evviva

• Japanese: やった (yatta)
• Portuguese: é! (pt), isso aí!
• Russian: да! (ru) (da!), ура́! (ru) (urá!), э-ге́й! (e-géj!)
• Ukrainian: так! (uk) (tak!)

See also

• yes

Etymology 2

See year.

Noun

yeah (plural yeahs)

1. Eye dialect spelling of year.

Anagrams

• Haye, haye, heya