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Interjections are uninflected function words that express the attitude or emotion of the speaker. They are used when the speaker encounters events that cause these emotions — unexpectedly, painfully, surprisingly or in many other sudden ways.

The word "interjection" literally means "something thrown in between" from the Latin inter ("between") and jacer ("throw").

1 English

Examples in English include ugh, wow, ouch, scat, alas. Conventions like Hello and Goodbye are also interjections, as are exclamations like Cheers! and Hurray!. In fact, very often they are characterized by exclamation marks depending on the stress of the attitude or the force of the emotion they are expressing. Well can also be used as an interjection, for example when put at the beginning of a sentence. Much profanity takes the form of interjections (and many other parts of speech). See also expletive.

Interjections can be phrases or even sentences as well as words:

As I entered the room — Oh, my God! What I saw! — he was still standing there.

1.1 English interjection phonetics

Several interjections contains sounds that do not, or very rarely, exist in regular English phonetic inventory. For example,

• Ahem [ @?@m ("attention!") contains a glottal stop that is common in German.
• sh [ S ("quiet!") is an entirely consonantal syllable.
• Ps [ ps ("here!"), also spelled psst, is another entirely consonantal syllable-word.
• Tsk-tsk [ ("shame..."), also spelled tut-tut, is made up entirely of clickClick may refer to: Click consonant The pressing and subsequent releasing of a button on a computer pointing device such as a mouse or trackball, without (significantly) moving the cursor. See also point and click . Alternatively, you may be looking for ks, which is an active part of regular speech in several AfricaAfrica is the world's second-largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. 30,244,050 km2 (11,677,240 mi2) including the islands, it covers 20. 3% of the total land area on Earth, and with over 800 million human inhabitants it accounts for arn languageAs with any complex, emergent concept, language is somewhat resistant to definition; however, most would agree that language is a system of communication or reasoning using representation along with metaphor and some manner of logical grammar. Many languas. This particular click is alveolar.

  There is also a less popular pronunciation [ tVt tVt.

• Ugh [ Vx ("disgusting!") ends with a German and Gaelic consonant, a velar fricative.
• Whew [ P\Iu ("what a relief!") starts with a bilabial fricative, a sound pronounced with a strong buff of air through the lips. This sound is a part of the native speech of Suki, a language on New Guinea.