Etymology

yatta

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Today it means: An exclamation of happiness or excitement. Full definition →

Japanese やった
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed fromやった“hurrah!, I did it!”
  2. English todayyatta

Borrowed from Japanese やった (yatta, “hurrah!, I did it!”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.