Yes and no "Ja", and the affirmative answer to "Snakker du ikke norsk?" ("Do you not speak Norwegian?") is "Jo", while the negative answer to "both" questions is "Nei". Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Hungarian, German, Dutch, and French all have three-form systems. Swedish and Danish have "ja", "jo", and "nej". Norwegian has "ja", "jo"/"jau", and "nei". Icelandic has "já", "jú" and "nei". Faroese has "ja", "jú" and "nei". Hungarian has "igen", "de", and "nem". German has "ja", "doch", and "nein". Dutch has "ja", "jawel", and "nee". French has "oui", "si", and "non". Swedish, and to some extent Danish and Norwegian, also has
Yes and no as well. In all Sinitic/Chinese languages, yes-no questions are often posed in A-not-A form, and the replies to such questions are echo answers that echo either "A" or "not A". In Mandarin Chinese, the closest equivalents to "yes" and "no" are to state "" (; ) and "" (; ). (In Cantonese, the preceding are 係 "hai6" and 唔係 "m4 hai6", respectively.) The phrase () may also be used for the interjection "no". Japanese also lacks words for "yes" and "no". The words "" ("hai") and "" ("iie") are mistaken by English speakers for equivalents to "yes" and "no", but