sim e não
Portuguese, phrase
sim e não is spelled S-I-M-E-N-Ã-O (7 letters). Sim e não is a Portuguese phrase meaning “yes and no (when answering a yes-no question, implies that the answer is relative and may be both yes and no)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nim”.
What does sim e não mean in English?
phrase
- 1
yes and no (when answering a yes-no question, implies that the answer is relative and may be both yes and no)
- 2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sim, e, não.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. nim
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.