やん

Japanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Contraction of やんか (yanka), itself from やないか (yanai ka).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jã̠ɴ]

Verb

やん • (yan) 

  1. (informal, Kansai dialect) isn't it?, right?
    一(いち)日(にち)中(じゅう)勉(べん)強(きょう)するとゆったのに、遊(あそ)んどるだけやん。
    Ichinichijū benkyō suru to yutta no ni, asondoru dake yan.
    Even though you said you were going to study all day, you're just playing around, huh?
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.