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adverb

(used to express affirmation or assent or to mark the addition of something emphasizing and amplifying a previous statement):
Do you want that? Yes, I do.
(used to express an emphatic contradiction of a previously negative statement or command):
Don't do that! Oh, yes I will!
(used, usually interrogatively, to express hesitation, uncertainty, curiosity, etc.):
“Yes?” he said as he opened the door. That was a marvelous show! Yes?
(used to express polite or minimal interest or attention.)

noun

plural yeses.

an affirmative reply.

verb (used with object)

yessed, yessing.

to give an affirmative reply to; give assent or approval to.

interjection

(used as a strong expression of joy, pleasure, or approval.)

yes

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sentence substitute

used to express acknowledgment, affirmation, consent, agreement, or approval or to answer when one is addressed
used, often with interrogative intonation, to signal someone to speak or keep speaking, enter a room, or do something

noun

an answer or vote of yes
often plural a person who votes in the affirmative

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of yes¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English yes, yis, Old English ��ŧ�� (adverb and noun), probably equivalent to ��ŧ�� yea + ��ī “be it” (present subjunctive singular of ��ŧ�ǲ� “to be”; be )

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of yes¹

Old English ��ŧ��, from iā ��īe may it be; see yea

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Example Sentences

If the answer is yes, she opens her medical bag.

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“Calling me an outsider artist … yes, I think it’s apt,” he told the Guardian in 2021.

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So, yes, the EU can bite - hard - as well as bark when it comes to retaliating against Donald Trump's tariffs.

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Swapping in honey added moisture, yes, but also something deeper, an earthiness and floral sweetness that makes you lean in for another bite.

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"So when someone said yes, I cried because it's everything I ever wanted."

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What Is The Plural Of Yes?

Plural word for yes

The plural form of yes is either yeses or yesses, but yeses is more widely used. The plurals of several other singular words that end in -s are also formed the same way, such as bus/buses/busses, gas/gases/gasses, and lotus/lotuses/lotusses.��

In some instances, particularly informally, the plural form of yes is written with an apostrophe, as in ��’s. This is not considered standard, but it may be easier to understand in some contexts because many people are unfamiliar with the plural form of yes.��

The word yes is only pluralized when it is used as a noun rather than in its more common use as an adverb. The word yes as a noun means “an answer or vote of yes” or “a person who votes in the affirmative,” as in The noes outnumbered the yeses.

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