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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

Example Sentences

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ya YA

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

Like the cliché, there’s two sides to a story, ya know?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Cignetti, smiling through that permanent I told ya so smirk, brushed off Indiana’s new status as the No. 1 heavy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

One activist wore a Donald Trump mask and held a sign that read: "It's capitalism, ya eejits".

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

“After that I take one of these and put it through the hole, but first ya gotta clip the ends or they might stick ya.”

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds

Netflix on Friday launched a new hub for YA content that includes several hundred titles of original or licensed movies and shows about the coming-of-age stories of young adults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The programs also are buzzy on social media, with YA titles representing 30% of Netflix’s most-talked-about titles since 2022, according to the Los Gatos-based company.

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

YA fiction is still thriving but is overwhelmingly the domain of adult women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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