Ya
adv, det, intj, name, noun, particle, pron, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet: Я, я.
- 2 Initialism of young adult abbreviation, alt-of, especially, initialism
"22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival."
- 3 Initialism of youth authority. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 yea; yes Northern-England, Scotland, UK, West-Country, dialectal, not-comparable
"'Ya, wilt thou!' said Wallace, 'then tak thee that, […]'"
- 1 Nonstandard spelling of you. alt-of, nonstandard
"But you don't really care for music, do ya?"
- 1 Yeah; yes. informal
- 2 Go. (Spoken to horses and cattle.) informal
- 3 Yes, yeah (used to express affirmation) Malaysia, Singapore, informal
- 1 Nonstandard spelling of your. alt-of, nonstandard
- 1 Used to form a confirmation-seeking tag question, expecting an affirmative response. Manglish, Singlish
"What about yourself Mr Chee, never look a day older, you'll see the rest of us six feet under… Really you look very well. I heard you went for new treatment in Switzerland ya?…"
- 1 A surname from Tamil.
Synonyms
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More examples"I think it might be useful if you could add how to output the diphthongs (with small ya/yu/yo) and geminate consonants (with small tsu)."
Etymology
Reduced form of you. Compare Dutch je, reduced/unstressed form of jij (“you”).
Apparently from German ja and cognates in other Germanic languages; related to English yeah.
From Middle English ya, from Old English ġēa, iā (“yea, yes”). More at yea.
Variation of hyah.
From Russian я (ja).
From Malay ya, from Dutch ja (and ultimately Proto-Germanic *ja). Reinforced by informal variants of yes in English (e.g., yeah). Doublet of yes.
Borrowed from Tamil யா (yā). This surname is the 5ᵗʰ most common surname in Tamil Nadu.