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• ya
  ya

  pronoun

  you.
• yā
  yā

  noun

  the 28th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
• YA
  YA

  abbreviation

  young adult.

ya

¹ American  

[yuh] / jə /

pronoun

Informal.

1. you.

   Give me a hand, will ya?

2. your.

   Where's ya brother?

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ya ² American  

[yah] / jɑ /

interjection

Informal.

1. a variant of yeah.

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yā ³ American  

[yah] / jɑ /

noun

1. the 28th letter of the Arabic alphabet.

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YA ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. young adult.

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Etymology

Origin of ya¹

First recorded in 1820–25; a phonetic spelling representing the pronunciation of you and your in continuous rapid speech

Origin of yā³

From Arabic

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Example Sentences

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ya YA

We’ll tell ya, it was a real hassle getting those through the Strait of Hormuz.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026

The exhibition "Hkeeli ya Jnoub", or "Tell me, O South", features pictures and videos preserving the memory of southern Lebanon at the capital's Beit Beirut museum.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

“How ya doing today, sir? Find everything alright?” he said to another as he circled the registers with a scanning gun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

“That was terrifying,” he recalled of his arrest,”that was a terrifying four days but ya girl’s gonna be all right.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

Everything was pretty much saying, Buy a whole new model, ya big dummy!

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds

While Green’s young-adult novels have often explored the teenage experience, he never felt confined by the YA genre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Amazon Prime Video in June held a fan event for its YA series and films called “Obsessed Fest.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Some particularly graphic scenes make this morbid epic more appropriate for adults, but Mr. Kraus’s gruesome sensibilities had always been an awkward fit for YA readers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

There was no category in the bookstore in 1970 for YA.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

In the YA section, some kids from school were playing on the computers, and they pointed and giggled when they saw Jonah being paraded around, his arm trapped in the librarian’s grip.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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