yes [jes]
sustantivo
1. sí (m)
adverbio
2. sí
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yes [yes]
adverbio
1. Sí, partícula afirmativa; sí tal; bien está; verdaderamente.
yes [jes]
adverb
sí "I didn't say that!" — "oh, yes, you did" —¡yo no he dicho eso! —sí, sí que lo has dicho; "you're not going, are you?" — "yes, I am" —tú no vas, ¿verdad? —sí sí, (que) voy; yes? (doubtfully) ¿de verdad?; ¿ah sí?; (awaiting further reply) ¿y qué más?; y ¿luego?; (LAm) (answering knock at door) ¿sí?; ¡adelante!; to say yes decir que sí; aceptar; (to marriage proposal) dar el sí; he says yes to everything a todo dice que sí; se conforma con cualquier cosa; yes and no (sort of) sí y no; yes yes, but what if it doesn't? de acuerdo, pero ¿y si no es así?
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y. 'y'. This conjunction means 'and'. For example, 'saben leer y escribir' / 'They know how to read and to write'. Y.
y
conjunction
e is used instead of y before words beginning with i or hi (e.g. Pérez e hijos Perez and Sons).
1.
and
(en general)
- un ordenador y una impresora -> a computer and a printer
- horas y horas de espera -> hours and hours of waiting
2.
what about
(en preguntas)
- ¿y tu mujer? -> what about your wife?
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y [yay, ee gre-ay’-gah]
noun
1.
The twenty-fifth letter of the Castilian alphabet, stands as a vowel and a consonant. (f)
- Y -> when alone, or after a vowel, or followed by a consonant, or at the end of a word, is a vowel, and sounds as e or ee in English: Hoy y mañana (today and tomorrow), o’-e ee mah-nyah’-nah
- Y -> before a vowel in the same syllable, or between two vowels in the same word, is a consonant, and sounds like the English y in the words yard, yell, you
conjunction
1.
And.
- ¿Y tú, dónde has estado -> and you, where have you been
- ¿ Y bien -> and well then
- Alfonso -> Fernando y Manuel, Alphonsus, Ferdinand, and Emmanuel
- Padre e hijo -> father and son
It is frequently used in interrogatives, or by way of a reply; as ¿Y tú, no haces lo mismo? and you, do you not do the same? When the conjunction y is followed by a word beginning with i or hi, the conjunction e is used instead; as, Sabiduría e ignorancia, wisdom and ignorance.
y
conjunción
1 (uso copulativo) and
fuimos a Málaga y a Granada we went to Malaga and Granada; una isla exótica y de gran belleza an exotic, tremendously beautiful island; treinta y uno thirty-one; un kilo y cuarto one and a quarter kilos
2 (al comienzo de una pregunta)
—ya ha llegado el primer grupo —¿y los demás? "the first group has already arrived" — "(and) what about the others?"; a mí no me apetece ir, ¿y a ti? I don't feel like going, what about you?; —id vosotros —¿y tú, qué vas a hacer? "you go" — "but what are you going to do?"; ¿y Max? no lo veo por ninguna parte where's Max? I can't see him anywhere; —he decidido dejar de estudiar —¿y eso? "I've decided to stop studying" — "why's that then?"; ¿y qué? (con desinterés, desprecio) so (what)?; (con interés) and?; no, no me han aceptado, ¿y qué? they haven't accepted me, who cares o so what?; —ya tengo las notas —¿y qué?, ¿has aprobado? "I've just got the marks" — "and, did you pass?"
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