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ye

See also: Variations of "ye" and үе

ye - English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: yē, IPA: /jiː/, [ʝɪi], [ʒɪi]

Pronoun

ye (personal pronoun)

  1. (archaic outside Northern England, Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland) You (the people being addressed).
  2. (archaic) You (the singular person being addressed).

Usage notes

Ye was originally used only for the nominative case (as the subject), and only for the second-person plural. Later, ye was used as a subject or an object, either singular or plural, which is the way that you is used today. In modern Hiberno-English usage, ye is used as a subject or an object in the plural, to contrast with you (singular).

Synonyms

  • (second-person plural): See y'all

Derived terms

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Traditionally pronounced the same as the, but now often pronounced with the ordinary sound of ⟨y⟩: IPA: /jiː/

Article

ye

  1. (archaic, definite) The.

Derived terms

Interjection

ye

  1. (slang) Yes, yeah.

Noun

ye (plural yes)

  1. The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.

Translations

  • Russian: е (ru) n (je)

Anagrams

ye - Asturian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈʝe/, [ˈɟ͡ʝe]

Verb

ye

  1. third-person singular present indicative of ser

ye - Azerbaijani

Verb

ye

  1. second-person singular imperative positive degree of yemək

ye - Bambara

Postposition

ye

  1. at, towards
  2. for
    • N ye nin kɛ Madu ye
      • I did this for Madou
  3. with
    • N bɛ n ko ni safunɛ ye
      • I wash myself with soap

Verb

ye (auxiliary)

  1. (verbal auxiliary for transitive verbs) marks an action which is accomplished
    • Ne ye moto san
      • I bought a motorbike

Verb

ye

  1. (transitive) to see
    • Ne m'a ye fɔlɔ
      • I haven't seen him yet

Derived terms

ye - Catawba

Noun

ye

  1. man (adult male human), men
  2. person, people
  3. Native American Indian(s)

Usage notes

  • Catawba nouns do not inflect for number.
  • Many of Catawba's names for tribes incorporate this word, e.g. yę iswa (“the Catawba”, literally “people of the river”), yę manterą (“the Cherokee”, literally “people born in/on the land”).
  • The vowel of this word is generally nasalized; this is reflected in different ways or not at all in different transcriptions: ye, yę, yen. Sometimes, an initial i, also nasalized, is found: inyen / įyę.

ye - Fula

Particle

ye

  1. so, therefore
  2. truly
  3. not at all

ye - Haitian Creole

Verb

ye

  1. Form ofse used at the end of a phrase, after the predicate and the subject, in that order; to be.
    • Kimoun ou ye? (“Who are you?”, literally “Who you are?”)

ye - Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /je/, /jɛ/

Preposition

ye

  1. to, at, by (preposition used when no other fits the meaning)
    • Lu kaptis la kavalo per lazo ye la kolo.
      • He/she captured the horse by a lasso to the neck.
    • Ye la angulo di la strado.
      • At the corner of the street.
    • Ilu prenis elu ye la tayo.
      • He took her by the waist.

Noun

ye (plural ye-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter Y/y.

ye - Japanese

Romanization

ye

  1. Rōmaji transcription of いぇ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of イェ
  3. (obsolete) Rōmaji transcription of 𛀁
  4. (obsolete) Rōmaji transcription of エ
  5. (obsolete) Rōmaji transcription of 𛄡

ye - Mandarin

Romanization

ye

  1. Nonstandard spelling of yē.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of yé.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of yě.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of yè.

Usage notes

  • 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.

ye - Maquiritari

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ɟe]

Noun

ye

  1. (Ye'kwana dialect) Alternative form of iye (“wood, tree”)

ye - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jeː/

Pronoun

ye (accusative yow, genitive youres,youren, possessive determiner your)

  1. Second-person plural pronoun: ye, you (plural).
  2. (formal) second-person singular pronoun: you (singular).

Usage notes

The formal singular usage, following the T-V distinction, was used to address one's superiors, elders or others to whom one might wish to show politeness or respect.

Descendants

Verb

ye (present participle yeyn)

  1. Address a single person by the use of the pronoun ye instead of thou.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jɛː/

Adverb

ye

  1. yes, yea

Descendants

Noun

yë (plural yën)

  1. Alternative form of eie

Article

ye

  1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of þe (“the”)

Pronoun

ye

  1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of þe (“thee”)

ye - Norn

Adverb

ye

  1. (Orkney) not

ye - Pali

Alternative forms

  • 𑀬𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • ये (Devanagari script)
  • যে (Bengali script)
  • යෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • ယေ (Burmese script)
  • เย (Thai script)
  • ᨿᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ເຍ or ເຢ (Lao script)
  • យេ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄠𑄬 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

ye

  1. masculine nominative/accusative plural of ya (“who (relative)”)

ye - Scots

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA: /jiː/, /jɪ/

Pronoun

ye (second person, singular or plural; possessive determiner yer, possessive pronoun yers, singular reflexive yersel, plural reflexive yersel)

  1. you

ye - Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA: /ˈʝe/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe]
  • Syllabification: ye

Noun

ye f (plural yes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y.

Usage notes

"Ye" was recommended by the Real Academia Española as a simpler name for the more common i griega (literally “Greek i”). Adoption of it has been slow.

ye - Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /je/

Noun

ye

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y.

Noun

ye

  1. Last letter of the Arabic alphabet: ي
    • Previous: و‎

Verb

ye

  1. second-person singular imperative of yemek

ye - Uzbek

Verb

ye

  1. imperative of yemoq

ye - Volapük

Conjunction

ye

  1. however

ye - Yola

Contraction

ye

  1. Alternative form of yie (“to give”)

Pronoun

ye

  1. you

Derived terms

Article

ye

  1. Alternative form of a (“the”)

Determiner

ye

  1. Alternative form of yer (“your”)

ye - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jè/

Noun

yè

  1. (Idanre, Ondo) mother
  2. (Idanre, Ondo) a term of endearment or respect for an older woman or female relative

Usage notes

  • (term of endearment): usually used with mi (“third-person singular possessive pronoun”).
  • (both senses): follow greetings and pleasantries.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jé/

Verb

yé

  1. (transitive) to understand
    • Ṣó yé yín? ― Do you understand?
    • Kò yé mi ― I don't understand

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jé/

Verb

yé

  1. to stop; to cease
    • Yé ṣe bẹ́ẹ̀! ― Stop doing that!

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jè/

Verb

yè

  1. (intransitive) to survive
    • Ògún yè, mo yè ― Ogun survives, I survive

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jé/

Verb

yé

  1. (transitive) to lay (eggs)
    • Adìẹ mi ti yé ẹyin ― My hen's laid eggs

ye - Zulu

Pronoun

-ye

  1. Combining stem of yena.
Meaning and Definition of ye
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