sí

A1Rank #24

yes, yeah, (used to respond affirmatively to a question, used both informally and formally)

Part of speech
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Frequency rank
#24 of 5,000

"Les gusta el chocolate, ¿verdad?" "A mí sí, pero a él no."

"You both like chocolate, right?" "I do, but he doesn't."

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"sí" in example sentences

"sí" appears in 653 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Sí y no.

Yes and no.

Tatoeba #1604984

Sí lo es.

Yes, it is.

Tatoeba #5127921

Si sí sí, si no no.

If yes yes, If not no.

Tatoeba #9063086

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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