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yaani
- before
Ultimately from Arabic يَعْنِي (yaʕnī, “[he/she/it] means”).
yaani
- (adverbial, conjunctive, prepositional, or adjectival) in other words, actually, namely, to wit, kind of, somewhat, id est, that is, meaning, you know
- (filler) er, so, uh, well
