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 with "voici"). Fonagy observes that such a classification may be partly justified for the former two, but suggests that "pragmatic holophrases" is more appropriate. While Modern English has a "two-form system" of "yes" and "no" for affirmatives and negatives, earlier forms of English had a "four-form system", comprising the words "yea", "nay", "yes", and "no". In essence, "yes" and "no" were the responses to a question posed in the negative, whereas "yea" and "nay" were the responses to positively framed questions. This is exemplified by the following passage from Much Ado about Nothing: Benedick's answer of "yea" is a correct