yep

See also: Yep and YEP

English

Etymology

Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (yeah +‎ -p). Compare yup and nope. Compare also German jap (“yep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛp/, [jɛp̚], [jɛʔ], [jɛʔp̚]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛp

Interjection

yep

1. (informal) Yes.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:yes

   Antonym: nope

Translations

informal "yes"

• Arabic: أَيْوَة (ʔaywa) (Eastern Arabic), إِيَّة (ʔiyya) (Western Arabic), آ (ar) (ʔā) (Egyptian Arabic)
• Azerbaijani: aha (az)
• Catalan: sip
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: jo (cs)
• Danish: jep
• Finnish: joo (fi), juu (fi), jep (fi)
• French: (France) ouaip (fr), mouais (fr), moui (fr), voui (fr) (Quebec) ouin (fr)
• German: jo (de)
• Hungarian: ja (hu)
• Italian: già (it)
• Japanese: うん (ja) (un), そう (ja) (sō), ええ (ja) (ē), ああ (ja) (ā)
• Korean: 응 (ko) (eung), 어 (ko) (eo), 넵 (nep)
• Latin: etiam (la)
• Maltese: ijwa, ijja, eħe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jepp

  Nynorsk: jepp

• Persian: آره (fa) (âre)
• Polish: no (pl), ta (pl)
• Portuguese: aham (pt)
• Romanian: mda (ro), dap (ro)
• Russian: ага́ (ru) (agá, ahá), угу́ (ru) (ugú, uhú), так (ru) (tak), ну (ru) (nu)
• Spanish: sip (es)
• Swedish: jäpp, jepp (sv), japp (sv)
• Vietnamese: ừ (vi), ờ (vi)

Noun

yep (plural yeps)

1. (informal) Yes.

   I'll take that as a yep, then.

Descendants

• → Norwegian Bokmål: jepp
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: jepp

Derived terms

• yeply
• yepperoni
• yeppers
• yeppity
• yeppo

Anagrams

• pye, pey, Pye