yep

See also: Yep and YEP

English

Etymology

Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yup, nope, welp, and ope. Compare also German jap (“yep”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jɛp/, [jɛp̚], [jɛʔ]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛp

Adverb

yep (not comparable)

(informal) Yes.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:yes

Antonym: nope

Noun

yep (plural yeps)

(informal) Yes.
I'll take that as a yep, then.

Descendants

→ Norwegian Bokmål: jepp
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: jepp

Translations

informal "yes"

Arabic: أَيْوَة (ʔaywa) (Eastern Arabic), إِيَّة (ʔiyya) (Western Arabic), آ (ar) (ʔā) (Egyptian Arabic)
Catalan: sip
Chinese:
Mandarin: 是啊 (zh) (shì a), 對啊／对啊 (duì a), 啊 (zh) (à), 嗯 (zh) (ǹg)
Czech: jo (cs)
Danish: jep
Finnish: joo (fi), juu (fi)
French: (France) ouaip (fr), mouais (fr), moui (fr), voui (fr) (Quebec) ouin (fr)
German: jo (de)
Hungarian: ja (hu)
Italian: già (it)
Japanese: うん (ja) (un), そう (ja) (sō), ええ (ja) (ē), ああ (ja) (ā)
Korean: 응 (ko) (eung), 어 (ko) (eo), 넵 (nep)
Latin: etiam (la)
Maltese: ijwa, ijja, eħe
Norwegian:
Bokmål: jepp

Nynorsk: jepp
Persian: آره (fa) (âre)
Polish: no (pl), ta (pl)
Portuguese: aham (pt)
Romanian: mda (ro), dap (ro)
Russian: ага́ (ru) (agá, ahá), угу́ (ru) (ugú, uhú), так (ru) (tak), ну (ru) (nu)
Spanish: sip (es)
Swedish: jäpp, jepp (sv), japp (sv)
Vietnamese: ừ (vi), ờ (vi)

Anagrams

Pye, pye

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