Particles in English (22)



Word Meaning
yes A word used to show agreement or acceptance.
to A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
(South Africa) Yeah? not so? hey?
like (colloquial
Scotland
Geordie
Teesside
Scouse
) A delayed filler.
no Used to show disagreement or negation.
fuck (vulgar
slang
especially
AAVE
) Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative phrases.
yass (US
dialectal
Scottish
) Eye dialect of yes
-es' Alternative form of -s' used on words that are made plural using -es.
diedrate Only used in hydrate or diedrate
nopers (informal) No.
yuppers Alternative spelling of yeppers
liao (Singapore
informal
) Perfective aspect marker.
inb4 (internet slang)
ter (dialectal) Eye dialect of to
nup (informal) No; nope.
lah (Manglish
Singlish
) Placed at the end of a phrase or sentence either for emphasis or reassurance.
cha (dancing) Used to count out steps, particularly involving the hip-shaking sections of rhythmic Latin dances
ar (UK
West Country
West Midlands
) Alternative form of arr
seeya Alternative form of see you
uh-huh yes; yeah
ye-es Eye dialect of yes indicating hesitance: used to show hesitant agreement or acceptance.
I mean (colloquial) A delayed filler.

Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.

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