Thank you in different languages of the world. What does “thank you” mean in different languages of the world?
How do you say "thank you" in different languages of the world?
- Albanian: falnderim.
- Amharic: (mamesigeni).
- African: dankie (dunks).
- Basque: eskerrik asko (eskerik asko).
- Burmese: I can’t write it in the original, but it sounds like this - kyayu tanya khakarr
Bulgarian Thanks
Thai Kabkoon krup
Latin
Ukrainian Dyakuyu
Dutch Dank u wel / dank je wel
Vietnamese Cm n
Lithuanian Ai
Esperanto Dancon
Japanese Arigato
Belarusian Jyakuyu
Afrikaans Dankie
Portuguese Obrigado (for a man), obrigada (for a woman)
Arabic (Egyptian) Shoukran
Estonian Tnan
Croatian Hvala
Greek Evkaristo
Finnish Kiitos
Italian Grazie
Hindi Dhanyavad
Swedish Tack
Spanish Gracias
Arabic (East, North Africa) Saha
Czech Dekuju
German Danke schn
Latvian Paldies
Uzbek Rahmat
Indonesian Terima kasih
French Merci
Romanian Mulumesc
Hawaiian Mahalo
Icelandic Takk
Azerbaijani ox sag olun (thank you very much), tesekkur edirem
Turkish Teekkr ederim/Sagolun
Hungarian Ksznm (Кснм)
Serbian Praise
Georgian Mahd-lobt
English Thank you
Norwegian Tak
Polish Dziekuje bardzo
This is how this blog started. And I think it's time to continue and develop this topic.
So, the topic of today's conversation is words of gratitude in the languages of the world. How do they sound, what do they express?
Previously in Russian the words "Thank you" did not have. In the 16th century they said instead "God bless you."
Among the Christian people, this phrase had enormous power and meaning. The person who pronounced it wished the interlocutor well and the best in life. This was a sign of the highest gratitude, and therefore the openness of people towards each other. Synonym for this expression is the phrase “God bless.”
Now "Thank you" used in oral speech in different languages of the world, without thinking at all about the importance and magic of this word.
Psychologists are sure that words of gratitude are “oral strokes” that can calm and warm with their warmth. The main thing is that words of gratitude are spoken from the heart! Only in this case will it play its magical role. In ancient times, people had a very wise belief - do not say words of gratitude in a state of irritation.
And the word "Thank you" Of all grateful words, the most grateful! It is easy to apply in life, it is very simple and sincere. Of course, if it comes from the heart, from a heart overflowing with gratitude.
There is one law of life associated with the feeling of gratitude: the more a person thanks everything good around him, the more good things happen in his life.
This is how thank you is written and sounds in different languages of the world. Approximate pronunciation is not indicated everywhere.
English: Thank you (Senkyu)
Arabic: Shoukran (shukran)
Armenian: Shnorhakalutjun
Belarusian: Dzyakuyu,
Bulgarian: Blagodaria(Thanks)
Hungarian: Köszönöm
Dutch: Dank u wel
Greek: ευχαριστώ (efkharisto)
Georgian: დიდი მადლობა (madlobt)
Danish: Tak (So)
Hebrew: תודה (tod`a) Yiddish: A dank
Icelandic: Takk (sooo)
Italian: Grazie
Spanish: Gracias (gracias)
Chinese: Xie-xie (Xie-xie)
Korean: Kamsu hamnida
Latvian: Paldies (paldis)
Lithuanian: Ačiū(Achu(yu))
German: Danke schön
Norwegian: Tak (sooo)
Ossetian: Buznyg
Polish: Dziekuje bardzo
Portuguese: Obrigado - when addressing men (obrigado) Obrigada - when addressing women
Romani (Gypsy): Najis tuke
Romanian: Mulţumesc
Slovak: Dakujem
Slovenian: Hvala
Tajik: Rahmat
Tahitian: Mauruuru
Tatar: Rekhmet (rekhmet)
Turkish: Teşekkür ederim / Sagolun
Uzbek: Rahmat
Ukrainian: Thank you, Dyakuyu
Finnish: Kiitos (kiitos)
French: Merci beaucoups
Croatian: Hvala
Czech Czech: Dekuju (dekuyi)
Swedish: Tack
Estonian: Tänan
Japanese: Domo arigato
It is safe to say that "Thank you" is the most polite word in any language in the world. This is really a very simple word, which is very easy to apply in life. Behind this simple and very light word lies a feeling of gratitude to the one to whom you addressed it. Gratitude is the best feeling that people feel towards each other. When a person responds to your “thank you” by saying "Please"– there is reciprocal gratitude, which creates a favorable atmosphere of relationships.
P.S. Perhaps one of the most polite days of the year reminds us of the importance of good manners - International Day of "thank you", which is celebrated annually January 11. This day is intended to remind all people of good manners, and also encourage their use in everyday communication.
How do you say “thank you” in your native language? Maybe you can give more examples that are not in the text?
Today is a general educational article about the word “thank you.” Where did it come from and what did it originally mean? I liked the article, I hope you will like it too.
By the way, you can hear all the words of gratitude listed below in different languages in America. And also consume. There are people of all nations, whose languages are listed below in the article.
Today the world celebrates the most polite holiday - International Thank You Day. The word gratitude, which is often used casually as a sign of good manners, according to scientists, has a sacred meaning. And not only in Russian.
We talked to philologists and linguists and learned from them what foreigners mean when they say words of gratitude, how politeness is related to sacrifice and money, why you adore cheese, and how to refuse a person with a simple “thank you.”
HEBREW
תוֹדָה (Toda)
Leonid Dreyer. Lecturer at the Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities:
Toda (emphasis on the second syllable) means gratitude in Hebrew.
This word is ancient. It is also found in the Bible. Earlier written sources with this word, alas, no.
In biblical times, the word “toda” could mean not only “gratitude,” but also some kind of thanksgiving sacrifice. Let's say a person made a vow, received something from a deity and made a sacrifice to the deity for it.
The second meaning of the word “toda” is recognition. By pronouncing it, a person could express his gratitude to someone.
In modern Hebrew, the word “toda” can be used as part of the construction “to recognize someone’s merits.”
GERMAN
Danke
Maria Kapustyan. Senior Lecturer at the Institute of History and Archives of the Russian State University for the Humanities:
The German danke – thank you – comes from the word “to think”. Danke used to mean “I keep you in my thoughts.” The word “danke” made a semantic transition from “think” to expressing gratitude in the ancient Germanic period (from 750 to 1050).
There is a possibility that the Ukrainian “dyakuyu” (thank you) comes precisely from the German danke, since Ukrainian speakers lived close to German speakers.
Larisa Vikulova, Doctor of Philology:
In Russian, the word “thank you” comes from “God save.” But it's interesting that we don't think about salvation when we thank someone. There is a similar situation in the Russian language with the word “adore”.
Many foreigners do not understand when we say, for example, “I love cheese.” Foreigners say you can’t adore cheese, because this word there is a basis "god". To adore cheese is too base, they think. You can adore nature, God, women, but not cheese.
DANISH
Tak (So)
Dina Nikulicheva. Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of Moscow State Linguistic University:
The etymology of the Danish word tak (thank you) is the same as in other Germanic languages.
Even in the common Scandinavian proto-language, the assimilation of the Germanic nasal sonant with subsequent consonants took place, namely nk > kk, nt > tt, mp > pp. As a result, the Old Icelandic word þǫkk, the Norwegian takk, the Swedish tack and the Danish tak arose.
All these designations of gratitude go back to the common Germanic root þankō-, which is represented in modern English - thanks and in German– dank. And the common Germanic root, in turn, is derived from the Indo-European root *tongā, which used to mean “feeling.”
FRENCH
Merci (Mercy)
Larisa Vikulova. Doctor of Philology, Professor of Moscow State Pedagogical University:
The French word “merci” goes back to the Latin word “mercedem” - reward, payment for work done.
In the old days French“Mercy” is gratitude for the given pleasure, mercy.
By the way, “merci” can be used not only as gratitude, but also as a refusal. In Russian, you can refuse by telling a person: “Thanks, no.” And the French can simply say “Merci” by making a corresponding gesture with their hands.
CHINESE
谢谢 (Se-se)
Natalya Chechina. Senior Lecturer, Department of Oriental Languages, Moscow State Linguistic University:
The word "thank you" in Chinese, 谢谢 (se-se), is made up of the character 谢 doubled.
This hieroglyph – 谢(謝) – in turn consists of 3 keys: 言 (“speech”), 身 (“human body”) and 寸 (“vertex, inch”). The last key (“vertex”, “span”) also has a figurative meaning - “insignificant amount, “very little”, “tiny”, “modest”.
In the East, polite expressions of gratitude are always accompanied by bows or half-bows. Therefore, when a person thanks someone, he pronounces words (the key of the hieroglyph “speech”) and bows (the keys “human body” and “top”). Doubling the character 谢 in Chinese “thank you” conveys a connotation of politeness and respect.
Thus, the Chinese “thank you” can be considered as a “farewell speech”, and when saying goodbye, as you know, it is customary to say words of gratitude.
Very often we want to thank another person for something. Even just out of politeness, when accepting something, we often say “thank you.” How to say thank you in English? How can you express more gratitude?
Let's start with how to write "thank you" in English: there are two possible options, and both of them will be correct.
1. Thanks
2.Thank youTo find out the pronunciation of these words, we recommend using, for example, Google translator or other services. We described in detail how this can be done in the instructions: . Or you can watch the short video below, from which you will also hear the correct pronunciation.
It would seem that for just one word there are already two variants of spelling and pronunciation. If this surprises you, you will now be even more surprised to learn how many different ways there are to say “thank you very much” in English.
1. Thanks a lot
The simplest translation of the phrase “thank you very much” for those who are barely familiar with English language, In my opinion. Because “big” means “big”, and “thanks”, as you already know, means “thank you”.
2. Thanks a lot
3. Many thanks
4. Thank you very much
5. Thank you so muchSo choose any of the options you like, watch its pronunciation, memorize it.
If you want more
If you have learned the usual and most frequently used words of gratitude in conversation, and you want to diversify your speech even more, then perhaps you will like some of the phrases below.
I'm very grateful to you. I'm really grateful to you.
You are so kind. You are so kind.How to say thank you at the end of a meal, for example, after having a delicious dinner at a party?
Thank you, it was delicious. Thank you, it was delicious.How kind of you! How kind of you!
You are so kind! You are so kind!How to thank for something specific? For example, for help:
Thank you for your help. Thank you for your help.Often when writing a letter or asking someone a question, you want to add “thanks in advance.” In English it is written like this:
Thank you in advance.
Possible answers
Surely it is possible that they thank you, but you don’t know.
You can say “please” in response, as many are accustomed to doing in Russian. In English it would be like this:
You are welcome!Also, you might want to say the usual “you’re welcome”:
That's nothing.
On my native language there will be Matal. This is the Yakut language
What did this word sound like in ancient times? Do people speak the same way now as they did thousands of years ago?
The Hebrew language is Todot. In modern Hebrew it is adank.
Latin - gratias ago, agimus. Consonant only with the Italian Grazie grazio, since Italian is derived from Latin.
Old Church Slavonic language - dyakuyu. This word now has the same meaning in the Ukrainian language, it seems that the Bulgarians thank dzyakuy, the Czechs dkuji dekuyi, the Lithuanians dkui, dky, the Poles dzikuj zenki, the Slovaks akujem, dziki, dzikowa. Among the northern peoples, the word has changed, but the general sound can be traced - takk - among the Norwegians and Icelanders takk, the Danes tak, and the Swedes tack. Actually, the English one sounds the same - thank.
And modern conversational-computer: spa, sps, spasibki (thank you).
In English - thank you (with e NK yu), in French - merci (mers And), in Spanish - gracias (gr A sias), in Italian - grazie (gr A tse), in Finnish - kiitos (to And tos), in Greek - (sas efkh A risto), in Latvian - paldies (p A ldies), in Mongolian - bayarlalaa, in Arabic - (sh A kero).
The Portuguese say obrigado A before), Danes - tak (so), Norwegians - takk (so), Germans - danke (d A nke), Dutch - dank u (d A nku), Czechs - dkuji (diku And), Slovaks - akujem (deacon at eat), Belarusians - dzyakuy, Ukrainians - dzyakuy, thank you, Serbs - xv A La, Croats and Slovenes - hvala (also xv A la).
Arabic: Shoukran (shukran)
Armenian: Shnorhakalutjun
Hawaiian: Mahalo (mahalo)
Greek: Evkaristo (efkharisto)
Georgian: Mahd-lobt (madlobt)
Danish: Tak (tsak)
Irish: Go raibh maith agat (go raibh maith agat)
Icelandic: Takk (sooo)
Italian: Grazie
Spanish: Gracias (gracias)
Cambodian: Orkun (arkun)
Chinese: Xie-xie (Xie-xie)
Korean: Kamsu hamnida
Latvian: Paldies (paldis)
In any corner of the world, words of gratitude are the first thing you need to master in order to successfully adapt.
Lithuanian: Kob chie (kob chi)
Malaysian: Terima kasih (terima porridge)
Mongolian: Vayarla (vayala)
German: Danke schn (danke schon)
Norwegian: Tak (sooo)
Polish: Dziekuje bardzo
Portuguese: Obrigado
Romanian: Multimesk
Somali: Mahadsanid (Makhasanid)
Swahili: Asante sana
Thai: Kabkoon krup (if you are a man), Kabkoon ka (if you are a woman)
Tatar: Rekhmet (rekhmet)
Turkish: sagol (sagal)
Fenya (Russian prisoner): thank you
Filipino: Salamat (slamat)
Finnish: Kiitos (kiitos)
French: Merci beaucoups
Hindi: Shoukriah (shukran)
Czech Czech: Dekuju (dyakuyu)
Swedish: Tack
Japanese Japaneese: Domo arigato (Domo arigato)
Thank you in Ukrainian will be dyakuyu, in Polish Dzikuje (dzeykue), in Czech dky, in Hungarian Kszi or Ksznm. In English, thank you - thank you, in Japanese - arigato or doumo, and the Japanese also use the word sankyuu, clearly borrowed from English, to express gratitude.
Every person pronounces such a word as thank you several times a day, so I would like to know how it is spoken in other languages. For example, in Armenian it is Shnorhakalutjun (shnorakalyutsun). But in Georgian it is Mahd-lobt (madlobt). But in Spanish it is Gracias (gracias). But in Italian it will be Grazie (grace). And in German it will be Danke schn (Danke Schon). But in French it will be Merci beaucoups (merci side). And in Japanese it’s like this - Japaneese: Domo arigato (Domo arigato).
On Arabic the word thank you is written Shoukran, but read as shukran.
on Armenian language the word thank you is written Shnorhakalutjun, but reads as shnorakalyutsyun;
in Hawaiian the word thank you is written Mahalo, but is read as mahalo;
in Greek the word thank you is written, but reads as efkharisto;
in Hebrew the word thank you is written but read as toda;
In Icelandic, the word thank you is written Takk, but is read as taak:
in Italian the word thank you is written Grazie, but is read as grace;
In Spanish, the word thank you is spelled Gracias and read as gracias.
Rakhmet in Kazakh, and in general among many peoples of Asia.
I saw that not all languages of the world were present in the answers, so I decided to add:
