# jes
## English
### Adverb

jes (not comparable)
* Pronunciation spelling of just, representing African-American Vernacular English.

### Anagrams

* JSE

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* jet, mbes, mbet

### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *etja, a denominative of jetë.

### Verb

jes (aorist jeta, participle jetë)
* to remain
* to exist

#### Related terms

* jetë

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “jes”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 186

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from English yes. Related to ja.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [jes]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: jes

### Particle

jes
* yes
    Antonym: ne
    Jes, mi ja parolas Esperanton.Yes, I do speak Esperanto.

#### Derived terms

* jesa
* jese
* jesi
* jesigi
* jeso
* kapjesi
* kapjeso

#### Descendants

* Ido: yes

## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English yes.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjes/, [ˈje̞s̠]
* Rhymes: -es
* Hyphenation: jes

### Interjection

jes! (informal)
* yes! (used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement)
    Synonyms: jee, jipii, oujee
    Alternative form: jess
* all right, I see, okay
    Synonyms: aivan, okei, selvä

### Further reading

* “jes”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## Kom (Cameroon)
### Verb

jes
* to decay
* to degrade, to wear out

### References

* Randy Jones, Provisional Kom - English lexicon (2001, Yaoundé, Cameroon)

## Russenorsk
### Etymology 1

From English yes.

#### Alternative forms

Can be replaced with Russian да (da) (and, probably, Norwegian ja, which is not attested).

#### Adverb

jes
* yes

### Etymology 2

A result of confusion between English yes and Russian да (da, “yes, and”).

#### Alternative forms

Can be replaced with Norwegian og and ja or Russian и (i)

#### Conjunction

jes
* and

### References

* Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

From English yes.

#### Pronunciation

IPA: /jês(ː)/

#### Interjection

jȅs (Cyrillic spelling је̏с)
* yes!, yeah! (used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement)

### Etymology 2

Shortened from various inflected forms of bȉti (“to be”).

#### Verb

jes (Cyrillic spelling јес)
* (colloquial) Alternative form of jest or jeste, often sarcastically as part of the phrase ma jes
** 1851, D. Ignacio Gjorgji, “Uzdisanje četvàrto”, in Uzdasi mandaljene pokornice u Spili od Marsilje, page 50:Sad ti osudi sudom pravim, Ako istine jes što u tebi; Je li razlog, da ja ostavim Za tvé slave slavu od nebi: I za siene pustim tvoje, Što je istino, što viečno je?Now judge with true judgement, If there is anything of the truth in you; Is it reason, that I leave behind Glory from heaven for the sake of your glories: And for your shadows let go of What is true, what is eternal?
** 2004, Faruk Šehić, Pod pritiskom: priče, page 21:― Pa jel pretrčo? ― Jes.―Well, did he run past? ―He did.
* (colloquial) Alternative form of jesi
** 1848, anonymous (folk song), “Djevojka sama sebe opisuje” in Narodne pjesme, page 325:
    Jesi l’ iš’o u čaršiju? Jes’ video list artije? Onako je lice moje.Have you been to town? Have you seen a sheet of paper? That’s what my face is like.
** 2005, Književna revija, volume 45, page 137:KARLO (sa smijehom): Mogao bi inspektor da objavi ovo što smo pričali u lokalnim novinama pa da sutra demantira. STAJKI: Šta da objavi? Jes ti normalan?KARLO (laughing): Maybe the inspector could announce what we’ve been talking about in the local newspapers so that he could deny it tomorrow. STAJKI: Announce what? Are you sane?