English Interjections



You should know about English interjections to express and understand people´s emotions. The following are the principal interjections, arranged according to the emotions which they are intended to indicate:

Of joy; eigh! hey! io! yeah!
Of sorrow; oh! ah! hoo! alas! alack! lackaday! welladay! or welaway!
Of wonder; heigh! ha! strange! indeed!
Of wishing, earnestness, or vocative address; O!
Of praise; well-done! good! bravo!
Of surprise with disapproval; whew! hoity-toity! hoida! zounds! what!
Of pain or fear; oh! ooh! ah! eh! O dear! Oh, no!
Of contempt; fudge! pugh! poh! pshaw! pish! tush! tut! humph! fine!
Of aversion; foh! faugh! fie! fy! foy!
Of expulsion; out! off! shoo! whew! begone! avaunt! aroynt!
Of calling aloud; ho! soho! what-ho! hollo! holla! hallo! halloo! hoy! ahoy! hey!
Of exultation; ah! aha! huzza! hey! heyday! hurrah!
Of laughter; ha, ha, ha; he, he, he; te-hee, te-hee.
Of salutation; welcome! hail! all-hail!
Of calling to attention; ho! lo! la! law! look! see! behold! hark!
Of calling to silence; hush! hist! whist! 'st! aw! mum! shhh! zip it!
Of dread or horror; oh! ha! hah! what!
Of languor or weariness; heigh-ho! heigh-ho-hum!
Of stopping; hold! soft! avast! whoh! halt!
Of parting; farewell! adieu! good-bye! good-day! see ya!
Of knowing or detecting; oho! ahah! ay-ay!
Of interrogating; eh? ha? hey? no?

Carmen María

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