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English
Etymology
Onomatopoeia of the natural expression of thought. Compare with er.
Pronunciation
Interjection
uh
- Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.
- Uh, who was that?
- Space filler or pause during conversation.
- Uh, let me see...
Usage notes
- May be extended by repeating the letter u or h to express increasingly severe confusion:
Uuuuh / Uhhhh, right, that makes sense, I guess.
Related terms
Translations
expression of confusion or uncertainty
- Catalan: eh (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 呃 (zh) (è, e)
- Danish: øh, øm, øhm
- Finnish: ööh
- French: euh (fr)
- German: äh (de)
- Italian: uh, boh (it)
- Japanese: あのう (ja) (anō), ええと (ēto), え (ja) (e), うーん (ūn)
- Korean: 저어 (ko) (jeo'eo)
- Malay: err
- Norwegian: eh, øh
- Portuguese: hã
- Romanian: ă (ro)
- Russian: гм (ru) (gm), гм (ru) (hm), хм (ru) (xm) (the actual pronunciation may not be close to the spelling)
- Spanish: eh (es)
- Tagalog: ah, eh
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space filler or pause during conversation
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 呃 (zh) (è, e), 啊 (zh) (ā), 那個/那个 (zh) (nàge, nèige), 這個/这个 (zh) (zhège, zhèige)
- Danish: øh, øm
- Dutch: euhm (nl), euh (nl)
- Finnish: ööh, tuota (fi)
- French: euh (fr)
- German: äh (de)
- Greek: ε (el) (e)
- Hungarian: ő (hu)
- Italian: uh
- Japanese: あのう (ja) (anō), ええと (ēto), えー (ē), うーん (ūn)
- Korean: 어 (ko) (eo), 저어 (ko) (jeo'eo)
- Malay: err
- Navajo: éiyá
- Norwegian: eh, øh
- Portuguese: hã, é (pt)
- Russian: э-э-э (ru) (e-e-e), э-э (ru) (e-e), ну (ru) (nu)
- Serbo-Croatian: ovaj
- Spanish: eh (es), este (es)
- Swedish: eh, öh (sv)
- Tagalog: ah, eh
- Vietnamese: ờ (vi)
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See also
Noun
uh (plural uhs)
- An occurrence of the interjection "uh".
2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in New York Times:Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Interjection
uh
- er, uh
- Synonyms: eh, ehm, um
Epigraphic Mayan
Noun
uh
- (astronomy) moon
Juǀ'hoan
Pronunciation
Letter
uh (upper case Uh)
- A letter of the Juǀ'hoan alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Romanian
Interjection
uh
- Obsolete form of uf.
References
- uh in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Pronunciation
Interjection
uh
- Used to express disappointment or disdain.
Further reading
Sumerian
Romanization
uh
- Romanization of 𒄴 (uḫ)
Yucatec Maya
Noun
uh
- moon
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