How to Say Yes in Different Languages

In English say "Yes." (Sounds like "yehss.")

In Spanish and Italian, say "Sí." (Sounds like "see.")

If French say "Oui" (Sounds like "we.")

In German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish and Norwegian it is "Ja." (Sounds like "Yah.")

In Danish and Faroese it is "Ja." (Sounds like "yeah".)

In Portuguese and Cape-Verdean Creole it is "Sim" (Sounds like "sing")

In Hebrew(Yiddish) it is "Ken."

In Irish, it is "Sea". (Pronounced "Shah".)

In Esperanto it is "Jes." (Sounds like "yes.")

In Japanese it is "Hai." (Sounds like "hi")

In Swahili it is "Ndiyo." (Sounds like "nn-DEE-oh")

In Hindi and Urdu say "Haa'n" or "Gee"

In Tagalog, say "Oo." (Sounds like "AWE-awe")

In Mandarin when answering an "I am" question, say "是 [Shi]" (Sounds like "Shr.")

In Persian say "Baleh" or "Areh."

In Arabic say "Na'am"

In Armenian say a-yo

In Icelandic, say "Já" (Pronounced "Yow.")

In Hindi, say "Haan" (Pronounced "Haa")

In Punjabi, say "Hanji"

In Marathi, say "Ho"

In Slovak, say "Áno"

In Czech, say "Ano"

In Hungarian, say "Igen"

In Russian, say Да "Da"

In Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Romanian say "Da"

In Slovene, say "Ja" (or "Da" in highly official situations)

In Turkish, say "Evet" (Sounds like "ae-wet")

In Telugu, say "Avunu"

In Kannada, say ಹೌದು (how-du) / ಸರಿ (suh-ri)

In Greek, say "Nai" (Sounds like "n-ae")

In Polish, say "tak" (Sounds like "tack")

In Lithuanian, say "Taip"

In Scots dialect, say "Aye" (Sounds like "eye")

In Scottish Gaidhlig, say "Tha" (sounds like "ha")

In Basque, say "Bai"

In Welsh, say "Ydw" or "Oes" (Sounds like "Uh-do" or "Oy-s")

In Gujarati, say "Haan"

In Luxembourg, say "Jo" (Sounds like "Yoh")

In Finnish, say "Kyllä" or "Joo"

In Swedish it's "Ja" (Sounds like YA)

In Indonesian and Malaysian, say "Ya" (sounds like "Yah")

In Estonian, say "Jah" (sounds like "Yah")

In Tamil, say "Sari" (சரி) (pronounced sa-ri) or "Aam" (ஆம்) (sounds like Ām).

In Korean, say "Ne" (네)

In Hausa, say "E" (éh)