yeah

See also: þeah

yeah - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈjɛ(ə)/, /ˈjæ.(ə)/

Particle

yeah

  1. (colloquial) yes.
  2. (colloquial) Used to express acknowledgment of what was previously said.
    • Do you wanna get pizza for dinner? Yeah, I think I'm gonna eat some leftovers.

Synonyms

Translations

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

  • Azerbaijani: həri
  • Catalan:  (ca)
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: 是啊 (zh) (shì a), (duì a),  (zh) (à),  (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 (de); (yes) ja (de)
  • Greek: ναι (el) (nai)
  • Hindi: हाँ (hi) (hā̃)
  • Hungarian: igen (hu), ja (hu)
  • Icelandic:  (is)
  • Interlingua: si (ia)
  • Italian:  (it), già (it)
  • Japanese: うん (ja) (un), そう (ja) (), ええ (ja) (ē), ああ (ja) (ā)
  • Kapampangan: awa, uwa
  • Korean:  (ko) (eung),  (ko) (ne),  (ko) (ye),  (ko) (eung),  (ko) (eo)
  • Lithuanian: taip (lt)
  • Navajo: wehee
  • Norwegian:
    • Bokmål: ja (no), yeah, ja vel (no)
    • Nynorsk: ja (nn), yeah, ja vel
  • Old Church Slavonic: ⰵⰹ (ei)
  • Persian: بله (fa) (bale), آره (fa) (âre)
  • Polish: tak (pl), no (pl), aha (pl) m, ta (pl) m (colloquial)
  • Portuguese: sim (pt), é (pt),  (pt) (informal)
  • Romanian: da (ro)
  • 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)
  • Sicilian:  (scn),  (scn), certu
  • Slovak: no (sk)
  • Slovene: ja (sl)
  • Spanish:  (es), seh, sipi
  • Swedish: ja (sv) n
  • Thai: เออ (th) (əə)
  • Ukrainian: еге́ (ehé)
  • Urdu: ہاں (hā̃) (informal)
  • Vietnamese: (informal),  (vi) (informal)
  • Volapük: si (vo)
  • Welsh: iah
  • Yoruba: bẹ́ẹ̀ ni

Interjection

yeah

  1. Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc.
    • Yeah! We did it!

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

  • Dutch: yes (nl), jippie (nl)
  • Finnish: jee (fi), joo (fi)
  • French: ouais (fr)
  • Italian:  (it), vai (it), evvai (it), evviva
  • Japanese: やった (yatta), イェー (slang)
  • Portuguese: é! (pt), isso aí!
  • Russian: да! (ru) (da!), ура́! (ru) (urá!), э-ге́й! (e-géj!), е! (ru) (je!) (slang)
  • Sicilian: forza ḍḍocu!
  • Ukrainian: так! (uk) (tak!)

Noun

yeah (plural yeahs)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of year.

Anagrams

yeah - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): je1

Noun

yeah

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) V sign

Verb

yeah

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to make a V sign

Adjective

yeah

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, somewhat dated) cool; stylish
Meaning and Definition of yeah
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