yet

See also: เย็ด

yet - English

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /jɛt/

Adverb

yet (not comparable)

  1. Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.
    1. In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.
      • I haven't finished yet.
      • Have you finished yet?
      • We do not yet know what happened.
      • He has never yet been late for an appointment.
    2. In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.
      • Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.
    3. (poetic or archaic) In affirmative use: still.
      • He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)
  2. At some future time; eventually.
    • The riddle will be solved yet.
  3. (after 'have' and certain copulative verbs, followed by an infinitive) Not as of the time referenced.
    • I’ve yet to see him.I have not yet seen him.
    • I had yet to go to a convention.I had not yet gone to a convention.
    • They are yet to win a single match.They have not yet won a single match.
    • He seemed yet to be convinced.He seemed not yet to have been convinced.
  4. In addition.
    • There are two hours yet to go until our destination.
  5. (degree) Even.
    • K-2 is yet higher than this.
    • Oh no! Yet more problems!

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Descendants

  • Sranan Tongo: ete

Translations

  • Arabic: بَعْد (ar) (baʕd) (in a negative sentence)
  • Belarusian: яшчэ́ (jaščé) (in a negative sentence)
  • Bulgarian: о́ще (bg) (óšte) (in a negative sentence)
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin:  (zh) (hái) (in a negative sentence)
  • Czech: ještě (cs) (in a negative sentence)
  • Finnish: vielä (fi)
  • French: encore (fr) (in a negative sentence)
  • German: noch (de) (in a negative sentence)
  • Irish: go fóill
  • Italian: ancora (it)
  • Japanese: まだ (ja) (mada) (in a negative sentence)
  • Korean: 아직 (ko) (ajik) (in a negative sentence)
  • Macedonian: уште (ušte) (in a negative sentence)
  • Norwegian:
    • Bokmål: ennå tilgode
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Cyrillic: ѥште (ješte)
  • Old East Slavic: още (ošče)
  • Polish: jeszcze (pl) (in a negative sentence)
  • Russian: ещё (ru) (ješčó) (in a negative sentence)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
  • Slovak: ešte (in a negative sentence)
  • Slovene: še (sl) (in a negative sentence)
  • Spanish: todavía (es)
  • Ukrainian: ще (uk) (šče) (in a negative sentence)

Conjunction

yet

  1. Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.
    • I thought I knew you, yet how wrong I was.

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Alternative forms

Verb

yet (third-person singular simple present yets, present participle yetting, simple past yet or yetted, past participle yet or yetted or yoten)

  1. (obsolete) To pour.
  2. (obsolete outside dialects) To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).

Noun

yet (plural yets)

  1. (dialectal) A metal pan or boiler; yetling.

Verb

yet (third-person singular simple present yets, present participle yetting, simple past yot, past participle yotten)

  1. (nonstandard, West Country) To get.

Anagrams

yet - Cahuilla

Noun

yét

  1. female (animal)

yet - Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [jɛt], [jɪt]

Adverb

yet (not comparable)

  1. yet, up to now, now as before, at present, still

yet - Tok Pisin

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Adverb

yet

  1. still
  2. already
  3. yet
Meaning and Definition of yet
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