Yes and no

Yes, the positive response to a ruling. You can also answer other questions.

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Positive questions

  • Yes affirms a positive answer: Question: " Are you going to the pool? " - Answer: " Yes ( I'll go to the pool today )! "
  • Question: "Is 4 to the square of 16? " - Answer: " Yes ( four times two is 16). " → indication of a correct response ( "right" )
  • "Yes, but ... ".
  • " Yes, but ... ".
  • Yes, that's ...

Negative questions

  • Negative questions are almost never answered in German with "yes": "Are not you going to the pool today? " - " Yes, I do not go to the pool today. "
  • "Are not you going to the pool today? " - " No, I do not go to the pool today. "
  • "Are not you going to the pool today? " - "Yes, I go to the pool today."

Other applications

Yes has in the written language, although a regulated orthography in spoken language but getting very many variations. This applies to the vowel length ( [ yes ] or [ja: ] ), the intonation ( falling, rising, both in succession ) and the vocal quality ( like an open A as in [ yes ], a semi open a as in [ jɑ ], an open o [ jɔ ] ).

  • Some speech acts "Yes!" Is also used as a throw-in, to mark the appropriate statement to be correct or to agree to an action. "Let's go to the pool. " - Throw: " Yes! Immediately, great idea. "
  • "Come here and help me! " - " Yes, I would have done anyway! "
  • " Are you coming or are you staying here? " - " Former " or "I 'll come with you ."
  • "I have now bought a new computer. " - " Yes! ( Really ?) "
  • "Many consider it important, indeed indispensable as the ecological question never to lose sight of. "
  • "You have no money anyway with you."
  • "Were you at the hairdresser's, yes? "
  • "Why do not you go on vacation this year? " - " Yes, I just have no money. "
  • "I've got all the dough in 'ne form cast, placed in the oven and ... yes, that's it! "

Synonyms

Synonym for " Yes! " In colloquial language is often the English loan word Okay. Often the word " Mhm! " (The first M is separated from the hm, sound pronounced as hummed ) used to express an acknowledgment.

To express the concept of " Yes ", there are other options:

Examples:

  • Yes! ( in the military )
  • Positive! ( In radio communications, in order to avoid misunderstandings )
  • Ai! (usually Ai Ai, in sailor language )
  • Nu! ( in the Saxon vernacular )
  • Of course! ( especially in the southern language area )
  • Fits! (especially in Bavaria and Austria )
  • Runs! (mainly in Hamburg and northern Germany )

Body language

In many countries, a nod is used as an expression of "Yes!", In some countries there are exceptions, as in India, Albania and Bulgaria, where bobs his head to the right and left.

In Greece and Turkey, we interpret a "no" to, by some tilts to the back end. Tourists who do not know this gesture, they can serve as nod in affirmation, misunderstand.

In Bulgaria, a "no" often reinforced by a nod.

Dialect and jargon

In dialects and also in network jargon, there are different terms for affirmation. Examples: " Jou ", " Jupp ", " Jo ", " Iu ", " Yep ", " Joa ", " E", " Yeah ", " Yo ", " Jodihoo ", " snack ", " ACK", "k ", "y ", [Note 1] " japp ", " ye", " yep", "ya ", " yihaa "

Political slogan

In the hotly contested referenda on the approval or rejection of a political project, use the proponents of the project as a political slogan sometimes a simple stand-alone "Yes". A wide media and public debate, the context is this " yes" already well known and can thus act by its brevity and conciseness absolute. "Yes," slogans are often issued in response to highly publicized "no" slogans. At the same time accommodates the slogan of the tendency of mass media to simplify issues of content and visually strong. A striking example of such a referendum is a referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in France in the spring of 2005. According to the months-long exchange of pro and con arguments, it was in the days immediately before the major election mainly just a matter of to give means of a Oui or Non his personal conviction and therefore even possibly to influence undecided voters.

In other languages

" Yes " is a base word in almost all languages ​​, because of its importance it is short and usually differs significantly from "No".

Apart from genuine relationships within language families similarities across language barriers are more likely to justify the brevity and therefore usually accidental:

  • Dutch, Afrikaans, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Faroese: yes
  • Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Serbo-Croatian: da ( да )
  • Albanian: po
  • Arabic: Na'am ( نعم )
  • English: yes
  • Esperanto: jes
  • Finnish: kyllä ​​, joo
  • French: oui
  • Greek: closer ( ναι )
  • Hebrew: ken ( כן ) ( כֵּן )
  • Indonesian: iya
  • Icelandic: já (pronounced something like cod ).
  • Italian: sì
  • Japanese: hai (はい), ee (ええ), un (うん)
  • Korean: ne ( 네 )
  • Kurdish: are
  • Latin: acclamare, ita [ est ] ( lit. " so [ it is ]")
  • Lithuanian: taip
  • Persian: Baleh ( بله )
  • Polish: tak
  • Portuguese: sim
  • Romansh: gea ( RG, Sutsilvan, Surmiran; pronounced dschea ), energy ( Sursilvan ), hot / ski ( turkey ), ski / hai ( Vallader )
  • Sanskrit: ha
  • Spanish: sí
  • Swahili: Ndiyo, naam
  • Tajik: bale ( бале ), ore ( оре )
  • Tamil: ohm
  • Czech: ano ( shortened no)
  • Turkish: evet
  • Ukrainian: tak ( так )
  • Hungarian: strength

There are many languages ​​that have no counterpart to yes and no, for example, Chinese, Latin or Irish. Often the verb of the sentence is affirmative repeated while there is "no" provided in the case of a negation. This practice is also common in Japanese than the use of hai.

In some languages ​​in which there is no actual Yes and No, but there are expressions that part instead of a sentence ( in part ) may be used repetition. This includes in the Chinese " shì " (是; ) or " Shide " (是 的). Similarly, the formulas are in Latin " ita est " ( " it is ") and " sic est " is used, whereby the latter have formed from for " yes," the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form.

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