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Colloquial form of yea or yes. Compare nah. Analyzable as yes +‎ -h.

• IPA(key): /jɛ(ə)/, /jaː/, /jæ(.ə)/

• Audio (US); “yeah” (interjection):	(file)

• Rhymes: -ɛə, -ɛ, -æ

yeah (colloquial)

1. Yes.
   Synonyms: yes, yep, yup, aye, ya, yea, uh-huh; see also Thesaurus:yes
   —You wanna get pizza for dinner? —Yeah, all right.
2. Used to express acknowledgment of what was previously said.
   —You wanna get pizza for dinner? —Yeah, I think I'm gonna have leftovers instead.
3. Used to ascertain the continued attention of the listener.
   Synonym: eh (Canada)
   I was walking down the road, yeah, and you know what I saw, yeah? A dog wearing a dress!

• The particle for ascertaining attention may be proscribed.

• yea

• ya

• ye (Internet), yeh

• yeag (Internet slang, humorous)

• aww yeah

• fuck yeah

• heck yeah

• hells yeah

• hell yeah

• I will yeah

• oh yeah

• shit yeah

• yeah-huh

• yeah-nah

• yeah, no

• yee

• ya, yah, ja

• yea

• yay (“yes”)

• yeh

• yes

• yas, yass

• yuh

• ye

• Y, y

• yee

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

yes

• Azerbaijani: həri
• Catalan: sí (ca)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 是啊 (zh) (shì a), 對啊 / 对啊 (duì a), 啊 (zh) (à), 嗯 (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)
• Hebrew: כע (ke)
• Hindi: हाँ (hi) (hā̃)
• Hungarian: igen (hu), ja (hu)
• Icelandic: já (is)
• Interlingua: si (ia)
• Italian: sì (it), già (it)
• Japanese: うん (ja) (un), そう (ja) (sō), ええ (ja) (ē), ああ (ja) (ā)
• Kapampangan: awa, uwa
• Korean: 응 (ko) (eung), 네 (ko) (ne), 예 (ko) (ye), 응 (ko) (eung), 어 (ko) (eo)
• Lithuanian: taip (lt), jo (lt)
• Louisiana Creole: wé
• Navajo: wehee
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: ja (no), yeah, ja vel (no)
  Nynorsk: ja (nn), yeah, ja vel
• Occitan: òc (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic: ⰵⰹ (ei)
• Persian:
  Dari: آه (fa) (āh), بَلی (balē), آری (fa) (ārē)
  Iranian Persian: بله (fa) (bale), آره (fa) (âre)
• Polish: tak (pl), no (pl), aha (pl) m, ta (pl) m (colloquial)
• Portuguese: sim (pt), é (pt), iá (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)
  Cyrillic: да̑
  Latin: dȃ (sh)
• Sicilian: sì (scn), sè (scn), certu
• Slovak: no (sk) , hej
• Slovene: ja (sl)
• Spanish: sí (es), seh, sipi (es), aa (es), mm (es)
• Swedish: ja (sv) n
• Thai: เออ (th) (əə)
• Ukrainian: еге́ (ehé), та (uk) (ta)
• Urdu: ہاں (hā̃) (informal)
• Vietnamese: ừ (vi) (informal), ờ (vi) (informal)
• Volapük: si (vo)
• Welsh: iah
• Yoruba: bẹ́ẹ̀ ni

yeah

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

• hurrah, hurray, woohoo, yay, yippee

• yeah right

expressing joy

• Dutch: yes (nl), jippie (nl)

• Finnish: jee (fi), joo (fi)

• French: ouais (fr)

• Italian: sì (it), vai (it), evvai (it), evviva

• Japanese: やった (ja) (yatta), イェー (slang)

• Korean: 아싸 (ko) (assa), 앗싸 (atssa)

• Portuguese: é! (pt), isso aí! (Brazil), boa! (Portugal)

• Russian: да! (ru) (da!), ура́! (ru) (urá!), э-ге́й! (e-géj!), е! (ru) (je!) (slang)

• Sicilian: forza ḍḍocu!

• Ukrainian: так! (uk) (tak!), та! (uk) (ta!)

• yes

See year.

yeah (plural yeahs)

1. Pronunciation spelling of year.

• Haye, haye, heya

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From English?”)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): je1

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
    * Jyutping: je1
    * Yale: yē
    * Cantonese Pinyin: je1
    * Guangdong Romanization: yé1
    * Sinological IPA (key): /jɛː⁵⁵/

yeah

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) V sign (a sign of victory or peace made by raising the index and middle fingers with the palm outwards)

• V字手勢／V字手势 (wēi-zì shǒushì)

yeah

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

yeah

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, somewhat dated) cool; stylish