yes-no

English

yes-no

particle used to form yes-no questions

Arabic: هَل‎ (hal) (initial), أَ‎ (ar) (ʾa) (initial)
Belarusian: ці (be) (ci) (initial)
Chichewa: kodi (initial)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 嗎, 吗 (maa¹, maa³)

Dungan: ма (ma)

Mandarin: 嗎／吗 (zh) (ma) (final)

Min Nan: 嗎, 吗 (ma / --ma)

Wu: 𠲎 (va) (final)
Esperanto: ĉu (eo) (initial)
Finnish: -ko (fi) (final), -kö (fi) (final)
French: est-ce que (fr) (initial), -tu (fr) (Canada, appended to the end of verbs (preserving the hyphen))
Hebrew: הַאִם‎ (he) m (ha'ím) (initial)
Hindi: क्या (hi) (kyā)
Hungarian: -e (hu) (optional, somewhat dialectal; no particle needed in standard)
Japanese: か (ja) (final)
Korean: ㅂ니까 (-mnikka) (after a vowel stem, formal), 습니까 (-seumnikka) (after a consonant stem, formal)
Mongolian: уу (mn) (uu) (final)
Persian: آیا‎ (fa) (âyâ) (initial, formal)
Polish: czy (pl) (initial)
Russian: ли (ru) (li) (placed after the first word in the sentence or phrase, optional), ра́зве (ru) (rázve) (initial, optional)
Slovene: ali (sl) (initial)
Swahili: je (initial, optional)
Tajik: оё (oyo) (initial)
Thai: ไหม (th) (mǎi) (final)
Ukrainian: чи (uk) (čy) (initial)
Urdu: کیا‎ (kyā) (initial)
Vietnamese: không (vi) (final), phải không (final), hả (vi), hử (vi), à (vi)
Yiddish: צי‎ (tsi) (initial)

type of question expecting either "yes" or "no" as a reply (as opposed to wh-questions)

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