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Ya is used to make incomplete lists of things (usually nouns). To make an exhaustive list, the particle to is used instead. Watashi no suki na tabemono wa okashi ya pan ya mikan nado desu 私の好きな食べ物はお菓子やパンやミカンなどです。 "I like snacks, bread and tangerines."
Ya (hiragana: や, katakana: ヤ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana is written in two. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana is written in two.
It is functionally similar to the particle まで made in Japanese. [23] Etymologically, the particle originated from the noun 切り kiri meaning "end" or "bound" (rendaku form: ぎり giri), possibly by way of shortening the term 限り kagiri "limit, as far as, as much as". The noun 切り kiri also gave way to the standard Japanese particle ...
Another difference in sentence final particles that strikes the ear of the Tokyo speaker is the nen particle such as nande ya nen!, "you gotta be kidding!" or "why/what the hell?!", a stereotype tsukkomi phrase in the manzai. It comes from no ya (particle no + copula ya, also n ya) and much the same as the standard Japanese no da (also n da).
Ya (arrow), the Japanese word for an arrow; Ya (Cyrillic) (Я), a Cyrillic alphabet letter; Ya (Javanese) (ꦪ), a letter in the Javanese script; Ya (kana), the Romanization of the Japanese kana や and ヤ; Yāʼ (ي), an Arabic letter; Ya (أيّها), a vocative particle in Arabic and other Semitic languages; Ya (hangul) (ㅑ), a letter in ...
Sentence-final particles are common in Chinese, including particles such as Mandarin le 了, ne 呢, ba 吧, ou 哦, a 啊, la 啦, ya 呀, and ma 嗎/吗, and Cantonese lo 囉 and ge 嘅. These particles act as qualifiers of the clause or sentence they end.
A small version of the hiragana for ya, yu, or yo (ゃ, ゅ or ょ respectively) may be added to hiragana ending in i. This changes the i vowel sound to a glide (palatalization) to a, u or o. For example, き (ki) plus ゃ (small ya) becomes きゃ (kya). Addition of the small y kana is called yōon.
猫 neko cat の no GEN 色 iro color 猫 の 色 neko no iro cat GEN color "the cat's (neko no) color (iro)" noun governed by an adposition: 日本 nihon Japan に ni in 日本 に nihon ni Japan in " in Japan" comparison: Y Y Y より yori than 大きい ookii big Y より 大きい Y yori ookii Y than big " big ger than Y" noun modified by an adjective: 黒い kuroi black 猫 neko cat ...