Appendix:Terms with no English equivalent/yes-no

This page lists translations of a phrase that is used idiomatically in numerous languages other than English, but has no idiomatic English equivalent.

English

Particle

yes-no

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Translations

particle used to form yes-no questions

• Arabic: هَل (hal) (initial), أَ (ar) (ʔa) (initial)
• Belarusian: ці (be) (ci) (initial)
• Chichewa: kodi (initial)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 嗎／吗 (maa¹, maa³)

  Dungan: ма (ma)

  Hokkien: 嗎／吗 (ma / --ma)

  Mandarin: 嗎／吗 (zh) (ma) (final)

  Wu: 𠲎 (⁰va) (final)

• Esperanto: ĉu (eo) (initial)
• Finnish: -ko (fi) (final), -kö (fi) (final)
• French: est-ce que (fr) (initial), -tu (fr) (Canada, appended to the end of verbs (preserving the hyphen))
• Hebrew: הַאִם (he) m (ha'ím) (initial)
• Hindi: क्या (hi) (kyā)
• Hungarian: -e (hu) (optional, somewhat dialectal; no particle needed in standard)
• Irish: an (ga) (initial)

  Old Irish: in (initial)

• Japanese: か (ja) (ka) (final), かい (ja) (kai) (final)
• Korean: ㅂ니까 (-mnikka) (after a vowel stem, formal), 습니까 (-seumnikka) (after a consonant stem, formal)
• Latin: ne (la)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: уу (mn) (uu) (final, back vowel vowel harmonic), үү (mn) (üü) (final, front vowel vowel harmonic)

• Persian: آیا (fa) (âyâ) (initial, formal)
• Polish: czy (pl) (initial)
• Russian: ли (ru) (li) (placed after the first word in the sentence or phrase, optional), ра́зве (ru) (rázve) (initial, optional)
• Scottish Gaelic: an (initial)
• Slovene: ali (sl) (initial)
• Swahili: je (initial, optional)
• Tajik: оё (oyo) (initial)
• Thai: ไหม (th) (mǎi) (final)
• Ukrainian: чи (uk) (čy) (initial)
• Urdu: کیا (kyā) (initial)
• Vietnamese: không (vi) (final), phải không (final), hả (vi), hử (vi), à (vi)
• Welsh:

  Middle Welsh: a (initial)

• Yiddish: צי (tsi) (initial)

type of question expecting either "yes" or "no" as a reply (as opposed to wh-questions)

• Hungarian: eldöntendő (hu)

Anagrams

• 'oneys, Noyes, Oyens, nosey, noyse, seyon