yes

Takođe pogledajte: þes

Engleski

===Etymology

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From Middle English yes, yis, from Old English ġēse, ġīse, ġȳse, *ġīese (“yes, of course, so be it”), equivalent to ġēa (“yes", "so”) + sī(e) (“may it be”), from Proto-Indo-European *yē (“already”). Compare yea.

===Pronunciation

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• MFA^(ključ): /jɛs/

• UK

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• US

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• Rime: -ɛs

Particle

yes

1. A word used to show agreement or acceptance.

   Yes, you are correct.

   Yes, you may go play outside now.

   Yes, sir, we have your package right here.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Hi, Jonathan. Are you busy? — Yes, I’m busy.

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2. A word used to indicate disagreement or dissent in reply to a negative statement.

   It was not my fault we lost the race.
   Oh, yes, it was!

====Usage notes

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• In Old and Middle English, yes was a more forceful affirmative than yea.
• An example of yes used to disagree with a statement: the questions "You don’t want it, do you?" and "Don’t you want it?" are answered by "yes" if the respondent does want the item, and "no" if not. Many languages use a specific word for this purpose; see translation table below.

====Synonyms

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• Dialect or archaic forms: arr, ay, aye, yea, yassuh
• Nautical, military, telecommunications: affirmative
• Colloquial or slang forms: ya, yah, yeah, yeh, yep, yeppers, yup, yuppers, yus, ahuh, mhm, uh huh.
• See also: Tezaurus:yes

====Antonyms

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• Standard form: no
• Nautical, military, telecommunications: negative
• Dialect or archaic forms: nay
• Colloquial or slang forms: ixnay, nah, naw, nope
• See also: Tezaurus:no

====Coordinate terms

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• (expression of agreement or acceptance): nod

====Derived terms

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• yes and amen
• yes and no
• yes man, yesman
• yes-no question
• yessuh

 

====Translations

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word used to indicate agreement or acceptance

• Abkhaz: aai (āāi), aiei (āiei)
• Afrikaans: ja (af)
• Albanian: po (sq)
• Aleut: aang
• Alutiiq: aa'a
• American Sign Language: S@Side Nod
• Apache:

  Western Apache: au

• Arabic: نَعَم‎ (ar) (naʿam), أَجَل‎ (ar) (ʾajal), إِي‎ (ʾī)

  Cypriot Arabic: ye

  Egyptian Arabic: أَيْوَة‎ (áywa), ايوه‎ (áywa), اه‎ (ā)

  Hijazi Arabic: إيوه‎ (īwa)

• Aragonese: sí
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: אין‎ (’ēn)

  Syriac: ܐܝܢ‎ (’ēn)

• Armenian: այո (hy) (ayo) (polite), հա (hy) (ha) (informal)
• Aromanian: ie
• Assamese: অ (o), হয় (hoy) (formal)
• Asturian: sí (ast)
• Aymara: jisa (ay)
• Azerbaijani: bəli (az), hə (az)
• Bashkir: эйe (eye)
• Basque: bai (eu)
• Belarusian: tak (tak), da (da)
• Bengali: জি (ji) (formal), হ্যাঁ (hjã) (informal)
• Breton: ya (br)
• Bulgarian: da (bg) (da)
• Burmese: ဟုတ်ကဲ့ (my) (hutkai.), အင်း (my) (ang:), အေး (my) (e:) (among equals or to people of lower status)
• Catalan: sí (ca)
• Central Atlas Tamazight:
• Central Sierra Miwok: guˀuh m pl
• Chamicuro: eje
• Chechen: hӏaъ (haʔ)
• Cherokee: ᎥᎥ (vv)
• Chichewa: inde
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 係／系 (yue) (hai⁶), 唔 (yue) (m⁴), 嗯 (ng²)

  Mandarin: 是 (zh) (shì), 對／对 (zh), 对 (zh) (duì), 啊 (zh) (à) (colloquial), (repeating the verb/attribute used in the question to mean "yes" 你知道吗？ 知道)

• Choctaw: ome
• Comanche: haa
• Coptic: ⲁϩⲁ (aha), ⲥⲉ (se)
• Corsican: iè, sì
• Czech: ano (cs), jo (cs) (colloquial)
• Danish: ja (da)
• Dutch: ja (nl)
• Egyptian: (tjw)
• Esperanto: jes (eo)
• Estonian: jah (et), jaa (et)
• Faroese: ja (fo)
• Fijian: io (fj)
• Finnish: use the verb, kyllä (fi) (literary), joo (fi) (colloquial), juu (fi) (colloquial)
• Franco-Provençal: ouè
• French: oui (fr)
• Friulian: sì
• Galician: si (gl)
• Georgian: დიახ (diax), კი (ḳi), ჰო (ho), ხო (xo)
• German: ja (de)
• Greek: ναι (el) (nai)

  Ancient: ναί (naí)

• Greenlandic: aap
• Gujarati: હા (hā)
• Hebrew: כֵּן‎ (he) (ken)
• Hiligaynon: hu-o
• Hindi: हाँ (hi) (hā̃), जी (hi) (jī), जी हाँ (jī hā̃)
• Hungarian: igen (hu)
• Icelandic: já (is)
• Ido: yes (io)
• Indonesian: ya (id)
• Interlingua: si (ia)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: (not used, affirmative form of the verb is used instead)
• Italian: sì (it)
• Japanese: はい (ja) (hai) (polite), ええ (ja) (ē), うん (ja) (un) (informal)
• Kabyle: ih
• Kannada: ಹೌದು (kn) (haudu)
• Kapampangan: wa
• Kazakh: iә (kk) (iä)
• Khmer: (female speaker) ច៎ា (jaa), (male speaker) បាទ (km) (baat), (informal) អើ (km) (’aə), (very informal) អឺ (km) (’əɨ)
• Korean: 네 (ko) (ne), 예 (ko) (ye), 응 (ko) (eung) (informal)
• Kyrgyz: ooba (ky) (ooba), makul (ky) (makul)
• Lao: ແມ່ນ (mǣn), ແມ່ນແລ້ວ (mǣn lǣu), ໂດຍ (dōi)
• Latgalian: nui, tai
• Latin: etiam (la), ita (la) (est), ita vērō, vērō (la), sīc (est)
• Latvian: jā (lv)
• Laz: ho
• Limburgish: jao (li)
• Lithuanian: taip (lt)
• Lombard: si, haé
• Luganda: yee
• Luo: ee
• Luxembourgish: jo (lb)
• Macedonian: da (da)
• Malagasy: eny (mg)
• Malay: ya (ms), (informal) ha'ah
• Malayalam: ശരി (ml) (śari)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maltese: iva (mt)
• Mandinka: haa
• Manx: she
• Maori: āe
• Mingrelian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Mirandese: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Miskito: au
• Mongolian: tiйm (mn) (tijm)
• Motu: e, o, oi
• Nahuatl: quemah
• Navajo: aooʼ
• Neapolitan: eine, sine
• Nepali: सही (sahī), जी (ne) (jī), हाँ (hā̃)
• Nootka: haa
• North Frisian: jåå
• Northern Ohlone: hé̄'e
• Northern Sami: juo
• Norwegian: ja (no)
• Novial:
• Occitan: òc (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic:
• Old English: ġēa, ġēse
• Old French: oïl
• Old Saxon: ja
• Oriya: ହଁ (hôm̐)
• Ossetian: o (o)
• Palauan: chochoi
• Pashto: هو‎ (ps) (ho)
• Persian: بله‎ (fa) (bale), آره‎ (fa) (âre), آری‎ (fa) (âri)
• Polish: tak (pl), (informal) no (pl), ano (pl) (informal), juści (dialectal or outdated), jo (pl) (dialectal), ja (pl) (dialectal)
• Portuguese: sim (pt)
• Punjabi: ਹਾਂ (hā̃)
• Quechua: ari
• Rajasthani: हां (hā̃)
• Rapa Nui: eee
• Romanian: da (ro)
• Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) gea, (Sursilvan) gie, (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) ea, (Puter, Vallader) schi, (Puter, Vallader) hei, (Vallader) hai
• Russian: da (ru) (da), tak (ru) (tak), agá (ru) (ahá, agá) (colloquial)
• Samoan: ioe
• Sanskrit: एवं (sa) (evaṃ), आं (āṃ)
• Sardinian: eja
• Saterland Frisian: jee
• Scots: aye
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: da

  Roman: da (sh)

• Shor: эze (eze)
• Sicilian: sè (scn)
• Sikkimese: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Silesian: ja
• Sinhalese: ඔවු (ovu)
• Slovak: áno (sk), hej (colloquial), no (informal)
• Slovene: dà (sl), já (sl)
• Somali: haa (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jo

• Southern Ohlone: gehe
• Southern Sierra Miwok: hy·ʔy·
• Spanish: sí (es)
• Svan: ა̄დუ (ādu), ა̄დვ (ādv)
• Swahili: ndiyo (sw)
• Swedish: ja (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠅꠄ (oe)
• Tagalog: oo (tl), (formal) opo (tl)
• Tajik: ҳa (tg) (ha), bale (tg) (bale), ori (ori)
• Tamil: ஆமாம் (ta) (āmām)
• Taos: hą
• Tatar: әйe (tt) (äye)
• Taíno: han
• Telugu: అవును (te) (avunu), ఔను (te) (aunu)
• Thai: ใช่ (th) (châi), ครับ (th) (kráp) (male speaker), ค่ะ (th) (kâ) (female speaker), ถูก (th) (tùuk), ถูกต้อง (formal), อืม (th) (ʉʉm) (informal)
• Tok Pisin: ya, yes, yesa
• Tongan: io
• Turkish: evet (tr), he (tr), ha (tr)
• Turkmen: hawa
• Ukrainian: tak (uk) (tak)
• Urdu: ہاں‎ (hā̃), جی‎ (jī), جی ہاں‎ (jī hā̃)
• Uyghur: ھەئە‎ (he'e)
• Uzbek: ha (uz), boʻpti (uz)
• Vietnamese: vâng (vi) (Northern Vietnam), dạ (vi) (Southern Vietnam), có (vi) (in response to a question containing có), phải (vi) (in response to a question containing (có) phải), được (vi) (in response to a question containing được không), rồi (vi) (in response to a question containing chưa), ờ (vi) (informal), ừ (informal)
• Volapük: si (vo)
• Walloon: oyi (wa), awè (wa), åy (wa)
• West Frisian: ja (fy)
• Winnebago: hąąhąʼa
• Wiradhuri: ngawa
• Wolof: waaw (wo), waawaaw
• Xhosa: ewe
• Yagnobi: ҳa (ha)
• Yiddish: יאָ‎ (yo)
• Yoruba: bẹ́ẹ̀ ni, bẹ́ẹ̀ náà ni, hẹn (informal)
• Yup'ik: ii-i
• Zazaki: e
• Zulu: yebo (zu)
• ǃXóõ: ʻée, ʻíi, ʻē êh

word used to indicate disagreement or dissent in reply to a negative statement

• Arabic: بَلَى‎ (balā)
• Catalan: sí (ca)
• Danish: jo (da)
• Dutch: jawel (nl), toch (nl), (most common form) wel (nl)
• Estonian: ikka (et)
• Faroese: jú, júgv
• Fijian: ia (fj), io (fj)
• Finnish: verb + -pas, kylläpäs, joopas (colloquial), juupas (fi) (colloquial)
• French: si (fr)
• German: doch (de)
• Greek: ναι (el) (nai)
• Hebrew: דווקא כן‎ (dávka (dáfka, colloquial) kén)
• Hungarian: de igen
• Icelandic: jú (is)
• Italian: sì (it), invece sì
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: いいえ (ja) (īe)
• Korean: 아니요 (ko) (aniyo)
• Latin: immō (la), immō vērō
• Norwegian: jo (no)
• Pashto: هو‎ (ps) (ho)
• Persian: چرا‎ (fa) (čerâ)
• Polish: ależ tak, owszem (pl)
• Portuguese: sim (pt)
• Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) bain, (Sursilvan) bein, (Sutsilvan) bagn, (Surmiran) gea bagn, (Puter, Vallader) bainschi, (Puter, Vallader) bainschi hei, (Vallader) bainschi hai
• Russian: eщё kak (ješčó kak), naoborót (ru) (naoborót), naprótiv (ru) (naprótiv)
• Slovene: dà (sl), já (sl)
• Spanish: por el contrario, sí (es)
• Swedish: jo (sv)
• Vietnamese: có chứ (in response to a statement containing không có), được chứ (in response to a statement containing không được)
• Walloon: siya (wa)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Alabama: ^{(molim proverite)} yamá, ^{(molim proverite)} yamma
• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} po (sq)
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} أَجَل‎ (ar) (ʾajal)
• Aymara: ^{(please verify)} jisa (ay)
• Bengali: ^{(molim proverite)} হ্যাঁ (hjã)
• Bikol Central: ^{(molim proverite)} oo
• Breton: (1) ^{(please verify)} ya (br), ^{(please verify)} eo (br), (2) ^{(please verify)} geo (br)
• Cebuano: ^{(molim proverite)} oo
• Chickasaw: ^{(molim proverite)} hohmi, ^{(molim proverite)} ah
• Garifuna: (used by males) ^{(molim proverite)} ayé, (used by females) ^{(molim proverite)} ayí
• Guaraní: ^{(molim proverite)} heẽ
• Hiligaynon: ^{(molim proverite)} huo
• Ilocano: ^{(molim proverite)} wen
• Inuktitut: ^{(molim proverite)} ᐄ (ii)
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• Kapampangan: ^{(molim proverite)} wa
• Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} , ^{(please verify)} , ^{(please verify)} , ^{(please verify)} , ^{(please verify)} , ^{(please verify)}
• Maguindanao: ^{(molim proverite)} wai
• Malagasy: ^{(please verify)} eny (mg)
• Maléku Jaíka: ^{(molim proverite)} áo
• Maori: ^{(molim proverite)} ae, ^{(molim proverite)} āe
• Sardinian: ^{(molim proverite)} eja
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(molim proverite)} da ^{(please verify)} da (sh)
• Sinhalese: ^{(molim proverite)} ඔවු (ovu)
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} ndiyo (sw), ^{(please verify)} sawa (sw)
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} oo (tl)
• Tausug: ^{(molim proverite)} huun
• Tupinambá: (said by men) ^{(molim proverite)} pá, (said by men and women) ^{(molim proverite)} e'ẽ
• Tz'utujil: ^{(molim proverite)} ken

Interjection

yes!

1. Used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement.

   Our second goal of the match! Yes!

   Antonim: no

2. Response that confirms that the user is paying attention.

====Translations

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expression of pleasure, joy or great excitement — See also translations at yay

• Breton: ya (br)
• Dutch: ja (nl)
• Esperanto: jes (eo)
• Finnish: jes! (fi)
• French: oui (fr)
• Georgian: ურა (ura), ვაშა (vaša)
• German: ja (de)
• Gothic: 𐌾𐌰 (ja)
• Greek: ναι (el) n (nai)
• Hebrew: יש!‎ (he) (yesh!)
• Irish: sea (ga)
• Italian: sì (it)
• Japanese: よし (ja) (yoshi), やった (yatta)
• Latin: sīc, eu (la), euge, evax, iō
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: yes (no) n
• Old English: gea
• Polish: tak (pl)
• Portuguese: sim! (pt), é! (pt), assim! (pt), isso! (pt), aí! (pt)
• Russian: da (ru) (da)!
• Scottish Gaelic: tha
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: to!

• Slovene: to! (sl)
• Spanish: sí (es)
• Swedish: ja (sv)
• Turkish: evet (tr)
• Welsh: ie'n
• Wiradhuri: yaala!, yalu

response that confirms attention

• Finnish: niin (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Vietnamese: vâng (vi) (Northern Vietnam), dạ (vi) (Southern Vietnam), ơi (vi) (informal)

===Noun

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yes (plural yeses or yesses)

1. An affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.

   Was that a yes?

   Sinonims: aye, yea, nod

   Antonims: no, nay

2. A vote of support or in favor/favour of something.

   The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".

   Sinonims: aye, yea

   Antonim: nay

====Translations

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answer that shows agreement or acceptance

• Arabic: نَعَم‎ (ar) f (naʿam), نَعَمَانِ‎ f du (naʿamāni), نَعَمَات‎ f pl (naʿamāt)
• Czech: ano (cs)
• Danish: ja (da)
• Finnish: kyllä (fi)
• French: oui (fr) m, si (fr) m
• Georgian: თანხმობა (tanxmoba)
• German: Ja (de) m or n
• Greek: ναι (el) n (nai)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: sì (it) m
• Portuguese: sim (pt) m, afirmativo (pt) m
• Russian: da (ru) m (da)
• Slovene: dà (sl) m
• Spanish: sí (es)
• Swedish: ja (sv)
• Yoruba: òòò, ẹyi (honorific)

vote of support

• Finnish: jaa (fi), kyllä (fi)
• French: oui (fr) m
• Georgian: კი (ḳi)
• German: Ja (de) n
• Greek: ναι (el) n (nai)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: sì (it) m, voto a favore m
• Portuguese: sim (pt) m, a favor (pt) m
• Spanish: sí (es) m, a favor m
• Swedish: ja (sv)

===Verb

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1. (colloquial, tranzitivno) to agree with, affirm, approve.

   Did he yes the veto?

   • 1972 Oct, Barth, John, “Perseid”, in Harper's Magazine, strana 79:

   Sinonims: agree, consent, nod

2. (slang) to attempt to flatter someone by habitually agreeing

====Derived terms

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• yes man
• yes to death

 

====Translations

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to affirm

• Finnish: vahvistaa (fi)
• Italian: approvare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: aceptar (es)
• Swedish: godkänna (sv), acceptera (sv)

attempt to flatter by agreeing

• Finnish: myönnellä (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

===See also

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• yee

===Anagrams

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• Sey., Sye, eys ^{(alphagram esy)}

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Asturian

===Verb

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yes

1. drugo lice jednine prezenta indikativa of ser

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Danish

===Etymology

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Borrowed from Engleski yes.

Interjection

yes

1. (colloquial) Expression of triumph, vehement approval, etc.

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Dutch

===Etymology

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Borrowed from Engleski yes.

===Pronunciation

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• MFA^(ključ): /jɛs/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: yes
• Rime: -ɛs

Interjection

yes

1. (colloquial) yay (exclamation of happiness or enthusiasm)

   Sinonim: jee

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French

===Etymology

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From Engleski yes.

===Pronunciation

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• MFA^(ključ): /jɛs/

Interjection

yes

1. (chiefly Quebec, colloquial) yes!

   Sinonim: oui

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Ido

===Etymology

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From Esperanto jes, from Engleski yes.

===Pronunciation

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• MFA^(ključ): /jes/

Adverb

yes

1. yes

   Antonim: no

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Middle English

===Etymology

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====Noun

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yes (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of is (“ice”)

===Etymology

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Interjection

yes

1. Alternative form of yis (“yes”)

===Etymology

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Determiner

yes

1. (East Anglian) Alternative form of þes (“these”)

===Etymology

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====Noun

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yes

1. (Late Middle English) množine of ye (“eye”)

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Novial

Particle

1. yes

   Antonim: no

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Spanish

===Pronunciation

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• MFA^(ključ): /ɟ͡ʝes/

===Noun

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yes

1. množine of ye

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Tok Pisin

===Etymology

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From Engleski yes.

Particle

yes

1. yes (word used to show agreement or acceptance)

Interjection

yes

1. yes (used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement)