English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Colloquial/dialectal form of yea or yes.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): [jɛə̯], [jɛ.ə], or [jæə̯]
- Rhymes: -ɛə
Particle[edit]
yeah (not comparable)
- (informal) Yes. [from 19th c.]
Synonyms[edit]
- (agreement): yes, yep, yup, aye, ya, yea, uh-huh
- (joy): hurrah, hurray, woohoo, yay, yippee
Translations[edit]
Note: Many languages have no equivalent of this word; in those cases, the translations given here are for yes.
yes
- Arabic: أَيْوَة (ʾaywa) (Eastern Arabic), إِيَّة (ʾiyya) (Western Arabic), آ (ar) (ʾā) (Egyptian Arabic)
- 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
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- 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)
- 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: dа
- Roman: da (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
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Interjection[edit]
yeah
- Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc.
- Yeah! We did it!
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