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yo

See also: YO, yo', yoʼ, y/o, yō, yö, y.o., and Variations of "yo"

yo - Translingual

Symbol

yo

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Yoruba.

yo - English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /jəʊ/
  • (US) IPA: /joʊ/

Interjection

yo

  1. (slang) A greeting similar to hi.
    • Synonyms: oi, wotcher
    • Yo Paulie! How's it going?
  2. (slang) An interjection similar to hey.
    • Synonyms: ahoy, oi; see also hey
    • Yo, check this out!
    • Check this out, yo!
  3. (slang) An expression of surprise or excitement.
    • Yo, that's crazy, but I don't remember asking.
  4. (military slang) Present! Here!
    • Sergeant: Smith? Private Smith: Yo!
  5. (chiefly African-American Vernacular) Emphatic conclusion to a statement.

Synonyms

  • (greeting): hey, hi; see also Greetings
  • (interjection): hey

Alternative forms

Determiner

yo

  1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of your.
    • Yo sandwich has only bacon in it. Want some ketchup on that?

Pronoun

yo

  1. (Baltimore) third-person singular, familiar
    • Yo was tuckin' in his shirt! (Stotko and Troyer 2007)

Noun

yo

  1. Abbreviation of year(s) old; also y.o., y/o.
  2. (crochet) Initialism of yarn over.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jɒ/

Noun

yo (plural yos)

  1. The letter Ё, ё.

Derived terms

  • yoficator

Translations

  • Russian: ё (ru) n (jo)

Numeral

yo

  1. Short for yoleven.

Noun

yo (plural yo or yos)

  1. Obsolete form of yue, a traditional Chinese unit of volume.

Anagrams

yo - Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈjo/, [ˈjɔ]

Pronoun

yó

  1. I, me

Usage notes

  • The form yóo is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.

yo - Aragonese

Pronoun

yo

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

yo - Asturian

Pronoun

yo

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

yo - Chavacano

Pronoun

yo (accusative conmigo)

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

yo - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): jou1

Adjective

yo

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) outgoing; sociable

Verb

yo (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang)

  1. to act in an outgoing manner
  2. to socialize with; to interact with
  3. (euphemistic) Used in certain interjections to replace vulgar verbs.

Derived terms

yo - Danish

Interjection

yo

  1. (slang) yo

yo - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /joː/
  • Hyphenation: yo

Interjection

yo

  1. (slang) yo (informal greeting, interjection similar to hey)

yo - Guerrero Amuzgo

Adjective

yo

  1. with

yo - Haitian Creole

Article

yo pl

  1. the

Usage notes

This word is only used in its article sense when it modifies a plural noun.

Pronoun

yo (contracted form y)

  1. they
  2. them

yo - Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /joː/
  • Hyphenation: yo

Interjection

yo

  1. (slang) id (informal greeting, interjection similar to hey)

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yo - Japanese

Romanization

yo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of よ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ヨ

yo - Kristang

Pronoun

yo

  1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

yo - Ladino

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jo/, /jɔ/

Pronoun

yo (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ייו‎)

  1. I

yo - Lashi

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jo˧/, [ju˧˩]

Noun

yo

  1. field
  2. farm

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jo˧/

Noun

yo

  1. peace

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /joː˧/, [jɔ˧˨]

Noun

yo

  1. itch

yo - Lingala

Pronoun

yo

  1. Alternative form of yɔ̂

yo - Lower Tanana

Noun

yo

  1. sky

yo - Mandarin

Romanization

yo (yo5／yo0, Zhuyin ˙ㄧㄛ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 喲／哟
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚛／𪠸, 𪠸

yo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of yō.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

yo - Maquiritari

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ɟo]

Verb

yo

  1. (transitive) to leave (someone) without a portion from the hunt

yo - Middle English

Pronoun

yo

  1. Alternative form of yow

Pronoun

yo

  1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

yo - Noone

Noun

yo (plural yɔ́)

  1. snake

yo - Norman

Alternative forms

Noun

yo f (plural yos)

  1. (Sark) water

yo - Pali

Alternative forms

  • 𑀬𑁄 (Brahmi script)
  • यो (Devanagari script)
  • যো (Bengali script)
  • යො (Sinhalese script)
  • ယော or ယေႃ (Burmese script)
  • โย (Thai script)
  • ᨿᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
  • ໂຍ or ໂຢ (Lao script)
  • យោ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄠𑄮 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

yo

  1. masculine nominative singular of ya (“who (relative)”)

yo - Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA: /ˈʝo/ [ˈɟ͡ʝo]
  • Syllabification: yo

Pronoun

yo

  1. First-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I

Usage notes

  • When more pronouns are included in the same sentence, it is considered impolite to say the pronoun yo at first; it must be the last one (this also applies to mí):
    • Iremos Rosa, tú y yo. ― Rosa, you and I will go.

Derived terms

Noun

yo m (plural yos or yoes)

  1. (psychoanalysis) Freud's concept of the ego

Descendants

  • Chavacano: yo
  • → Interlingue: yo

yo - Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jo/

Interjection

  1. (casual) no

yo - West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jo/

Particle

yo

  1. sentence-final action negation particle; not
    • de tifiam yo ― I am not eating

Usage notes

Specifically negates action verbs (intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, etc.). To negate a stative verb, see wayo. The verbs seba/tope (“to want”) are not negated by ua, which would be ungrammatical. Instead, one uses the verb fono (“to not want”).

yo - Xhosa

Pronoun

-yo

  1. Combining stem of yona.

yo - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /jó/

Verb

yó

  1. to become saturated with food or drinks; to become full (after eating)
    1. to become drunk
  2. to become fleshy or robust (in reference to the belly or body)
  3. (idiomatic, euphemistic) to become pregnant

Derived terms

  • Àwòyó (“a nickname for the orisha Yemọja”)

yo - Zulu

Pronoun

-yo

  1. Combining stem of yona.
Meaning and Definition of yo
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