Talk:yet

I'm pretty sure Spanish "todavia" is spelled with an acute accent on the "i". "Aun" has a form with and without the accent on the "u" but I always get them confused. Is this the right one here?

In spanish , it is spelled "aun" when it means "incluso" (even), and "aún" when it means "todavía" (still, yet). The word "todavía" is always accented. 87.218.79.241 16:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

"Yet" does not mean "now" in the example given in def #1. When used with a negative word like "not" it indicates something which has not happened "up to" the current time, but will or is desired to happen at some point.

Rather, it does mean "now" but it can only be used in the negative. You couldn't say "I am wise enough yet"

"As yet" should only be linked here as derived or related, and defined on that page. — 138.130.36.104 12:53, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I suggest that we delete definition 1 since all usage I have seen is included by definition 2. One usage which is common is "up until then" (e.g. "He had not yet heard the news.")
This usage always strikes me as odd (I almost claim incorrect), but it is common. Dbfirs 08:59, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Pronounciation

Is it sure the pronounciation is /jet/, and not /jEt/ ? The audio file sounds like the latter. Frigo 01:34, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Conjunctive meaning in English

The use of 'yet' as a conjunction ("He's a fool, yet I love him anyway") should be covered, but is not.

It is actually. Please look again. Ctrl-F for 'conjunction'. Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 02:29, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

have to

have to is not a copulative verb though --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:55, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

5. In addition.

Can the fifth meaning be expressed by still? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:58, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

yet again

What meaning covers yet again in a sentence such as Yet again, we find the same reluctance to act. --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:00, 15 September 2019 (UTC) --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:00, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

some time yet

isn't some time yet sum-of-parts? --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:10, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Adverb: nevertheless 2. moreover

young yet wise; I've never read it nor yet intend to. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:05, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

It was the tallest building yet constructed anywhere

used to emphasize that something is the best, longest, etc. thing of its kind made, produced, written, etc. until now/then: It was the tallest building yet constructed anywhere. Otherwise than changing the current definitions, this use needs its own meaning --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:04, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

No it doesn't. It's 100% perfectly covered by "Continuously up to the current time; still". Equinox ◑ 04:58, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

as "already"

Is the use of yet to mean already particular to the phrase "Are we there yet?" It seems to me we should either have that phrase as an idiom, or another sense of the word itself here, it doesn't seem to fall under any of those we currently have. --Droigheann (talk) 22:54, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Interjection

In the following quote, yet seems to be used as a somewhat sardonic/cheeky interjection expressing surprise.

• 1974 April 13, Barbara Piccirilii, “Landerslander”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

  "You mean you can't ask them to be quiet? You do want an interview, don't you?" Blackmail, yet!

Simplificationalizer (talk) 13:16, 31 October 2023 (UTC)