や


や U+3084, や
HIRAGANA LETTER YA
← ゃ
[U+3083] 		Hiragana ゅ →
[U+3085]

Japanese
Stroke order

Etymology 1

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 也 in the cursive sōsho style.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ja̠]

Syllable

や (romaji ya)

  1. The hiragana syllable や (ya). Its equivalent in katakana is ヤ (ya). It is the thirty-sixth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is や行あ段 (ya-gyō a-dan, “row ya, section a”).
See also

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ja̠]

Particle

や (rōmaji ya)

  1. and/or
    おとしよりや体 (からだ)の不 (ふ)自 (じ)由 (ゆう)な方 (かた)は登録 (とうろく)しませんか。
    O-toshiyori ya karada no fujiyū na kata wa tōroku shimasen ka.
    Don’t seniors and the physically handicapped [and others] register?
    最近 (さいきん)は犬 (いぬ)や猫 (ねこ)を飼 (か)っている人 (ひと)は多 (おお)い
    saikin wa inu ya neko o katte iru hito wa ōi
    recently, many people are raising [animals like] dogs and/or cats
Usage notes
  • Used to conjoin nouns, や (ya) may imply that the list is not limited to the nouns named. Contrast with と (to), the other particle typically used to conjoin nouns, which implies that the list is limited to the stated nouns.

Etymology 3

Phonetic change of じゃ (ja) in the late Edo period

Suffix

や (rōmaji -ya)

  1. (Kansai, Shikoku, Hokuriku, Fukuoka; jodōshi) is, are
    Variation on the Japanese copula だ (da), associated with Kansai dialect, particularly Ōsaka. The use of や (ya) is common in fictional dialogue attributed to characters from Ōsaka.
    まあ、ぼちぼちやなあ。
    Mā, bochibochi ya nā.
    Well, things are slow. (a stereotypical Ōsaka expression)
Conjugation
Conjugation of "や" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) や ya
Continuative (連用形) で de
Terminal (終止形) や da
Attributive (連体形) である de aru
Hypothetical (仮定形) なら
であれ		 nara
de are
Imperative (命令形) - -
Key constructions
Passive - -
Causative - -
Potential - -
Volitional やろう¹ yarō¹
Negative やない ya nai
Negative continuative やのうて²
やなくて²		 ya nōte²
ya nakute²
Formal です, だす³, どす³ desu, dasu³, dosu³
Perfective やった yatta
Conjunctive で
やって		 de
yatte
Hypothetical conditional ならば
であれば
やったら		 naraba
de areba
yattara
¹ usually shortened to やろ (yaro). ² often replaced to an alternative expression とちごうて (to chigōte). ³ だす (dasu) is used in traditional Osaka dialect and どす (dosu) is used in traditional Kyoto dialect.

Pronunciation

Noun

や (rōmaji ya)

  1. 矢: arrow

Noun

や (rōmaji ya)

  1. 屋: shop, store

Suffix

や (rōmaji -ya)

  1. 屋: shop, person who does or sells that thing
  2. 家: house

Okinawan

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese は (wa).

Particle

や (romaji ya)

  1. topic marker
    今 (ちゅ)日 (ー)や良 (い)い天 (てぃん)気 (ち)でーびる。
    Chū ya ii tinchi dēbiru.
    It is a fine day.
    (literally, “today + as for + good + weather + is”)

References
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