ya

¹ American  

[yuh] / yə /

pronoun

Informal.

1. you.

   Give me a hand, will ya?

2. your.

   Where's ya brother?

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ya ² American  

[yah] / yɑ /

interjection

Informal.

1. a variant of yeah.

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yā ³ American  

[yah] / yɑ /

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

Plus, the writers loved the phenomenon of hot sauce companies having such absurd names — think “Slap Ya Mama.”

From Los Angeles Times

But the agent checking me in said little beyond, “Where ya going?”

From The Wall Street Journal

As he rehearsed his lines, he said, “Ya know, the star of this movie is a 10-year-old kid.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Told ya,” Avery mouths, because Avery is a person who somehow knows that no one’s going to make a fuss about shoes on graduation day.

From Literature

“I’m just making sure you don’t lull me into a false sense of security and then say ‘race ya’ and take off.

From Literature