Yes
| This article describes the word Yes as positive answer and as Interjektion; for abbreviations see (term clarifying). |
Yes is the positive Answer on one Question, which one either positively or negatively to answer can. One calls this one Yes-no question. The answer can be thereby correctly (a true statement) or wrong.
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Answers
Positive questions
- Yes is the opposite of No.
- "do you go today into the swimming pool?"- answer: "!"(I today still go into the swimming pool).
- "is 12 to the square 144?"- answer: "', zwölf hoch zwei ist 144." => Reference to a correct answer ("correctly")
- In addition, there can be related and partly contain the negation with: ", but..."
Negative questions
- With negative questions is "nevertheless!"the opposite of No.
- "don't you come today into the swimming pool?"- answer: But (I come also into the swimming pool).
Confirming answer
- Yes in the colloquial language often also as confirming answer one uses.
- "haste you bread bought" - "Yes"(I have bread bought).
In some cases one becomes doubled denial used, in order to confirm a question:
- Zero are not larger nevertheless than unity? - No, Zero are not larger (actually) than unity.
That is equivalent too:
- Yes, that is correct. Zero are not larger than unity.
Further applications
- With some speech documents becomes "!"also as einwurf used, in order to mark the appropriate statement as correct or over an action agree.
- "let us into the swimming pool go."- einwurf: "! immediately, mad idea "
- "come and help me!"-", I would have done anyway!"
- On questions with one "either... or ", one can not with "!"answer.
- "you come along, or do you remain here?"-" first "or" I come with ".
- ",..."(spoken with stressed indifference) can also mean in the colloquial language: actually no.
- In elevated language it is used also as style means.
- "many judge it as important, yes, as indispensable, to never lose sight of the ecological problem."
Synonymous one
Synonymously for "!"in the colloquial language often is the English leaning word Okay. Often also the word becomes "TC!"uses, in order to express a confirmation.
In order to express the term "", there are further possibilities:
Examples:
- Jawohl! (Jawoll!) (with the military)
- That is true!
- Is correct!
- Exactly!
- That is correct!
- Thus we make that!
- Well clearly!
- Jepp!
- TRUE (also true) (in computer science (opposite of FALSE (no)))
- !FALSE (also!false) (in computer science (the exclamation mark negates the false))
- 1 (in computer science (opposite of 0 (no)))
Body language
In many countries becomes Nod as a sign for "!"uses, in individual countries there are exceptions, as in India, where one whips to the right and left with the head.
In Greece one suggests "no", by tilting the forehead somewhat back, and who these Gesture does not know, it can as nodding, thus as "" misunderstand.
Dialect
In dialects there are different terms for. Example: "Jau!“,"Jupp!“, "Jo!“, "Nu!"
Logic
Yes the correctness of an expression can be used and/or as logical value and marks. applying (TRUE, Opposite FALSE; T|F and/or. W|F).
"" an appropriate voltage level can be assigned to the logical value. It can be symbolized by a numerical value (z.B. "1")
Political slogan
In strong contested Populars vote over endorsement or refusal of a political project, use the proponents of the project as political Slogan sometimes a simple, unmarried "". By a broad mediale and social discussion the context of this is "already general" well-known and can work in such a way by its shortness and absolute praegnanz. "Ja" slogans are also often spent as reaction to strongly publicised "Nein" slogans. At the same time comes the slogan of the tendency of Mass media against, To simplify topics contentwise and optically highly. A salient example of so a popular vote is the referendum over those European Union condition in France in the spring 2005. To the months-long exchange of per and retort arguments it concerned in the days directly before the important choice mainly only, by means of one Oui or Non to lend its personal conviction expression and to affect with it still possibly undetermined voters.
Other languages
"" a basis word is in nearly all Languages, due to its importance it is short and differs usually clearly from no. Apart from genuine Verwandschaften within Language families similarities over language borders are to be justified rather with the shortness, and therefore rather coincidentally:
- German, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish: Yes
- English: Yes
- French: Oui
- Greek: Nae (???)
- Italian: Sì
- Japanese: Shark (??)
- Chinese: "Shì" (?)/ "Shìde" (??)
- Polish and Ukrainian: Tak
- Portuguese: Sim
- Sanskrit: Hectar
- Spanish: Sí
- Czech: Ano
- Russian and Romanian: There (??)
Latin and oldGreek are examples of languages, in that it that Yes in the actual sense does not give at all. The empty phrase "ita est" replaces the agreement in latin.
