/jet/
Translation
Up to now; used when something has not happened but you still expect it to.
Word origin
From Old English giet, meaning still or up to now.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- giet
Examples
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With "not", "yet" means it has not happened up to now.
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In questions, "yet" asks whether the thing has happened.
raining, .
Here "yet" joins two ideas and means but.
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