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Thank You - Wiktionary 4/24/11 9:56 PM Thank You thank you - Wiktionary 4/24/11 9:56 PM thank you Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also thankyou and thank-you Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Interjection 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.5 References 1.6 See also English Etymology Thank you is a shortened expression for I thank you; it is attested since c. 1400.[1] Pronunciation Audio (UK) (file) Interjection thank you 1. An expression of gratitude or politeness, in response to something done or given. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thank_you Page 1 of 5 thank you - Wiktionary 4/24/11 9:56 PM Synonyms cheers (informal), thanks, thanks very much, thank you very much, thanks a lot, ta (UK, Australia), thanks a bunch (informal), thanks a million (informal), much obliged Translations an expression of gratitude [hide ▲] Select targeted languages ﺳﻮﭘﺎﺱ ,Afar: gadda ge Kurdish: spas Afrikaans: dankie, baie dankie Ladin: giulan Albanian: faleminderit, ju falem nderit Lao: (kööp cai) Gheg: falimineres Latin: benignē dīcis (la), tibi gratiās agō (la) Latvian: paldies (lv) Aleut: qaĝaasakuq (Atkan), qaĝaalakux̂ Lithuanian: ačiū (lt) (Eastern) Luo: erokamano Alutiiq: quyanaa Macedonian: благодарам (mk) (blagódaram) American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin- (formal), фала (mk) (fála) (informal) PalmBack OpenB@FromChin-PalmUp Malagasy: misaotra (mg) Amharic: (am) (amesegenallo) Malay: terima kasih (ms) (ar) (mersii) Malayalam: (ml) (nandhi) ﻣﻴﺮﺳﻲ ,(ar) (shúkran) ﺷﻜﺮًﺍ :Arabic (informal) Maltese: grazzi (mt) Armenian: Maori: kia ora (mi) շնորհակալություն (hy) (šnorhakalut’yun), Marathi: धयवाद (mr) (dhanyavād) շնորհակալ եմ (hy) (šnorhakal em), Mongolian: баярлалаа (mn) (bayarlalaa), (colloquially) մերսի (hy) (mersi) гялайлаа (mn) (gyalailaa) Nahuatl: tlazohcamati (as) Assamese: (dhanybaada) Navajo: ahéhee Basque: eskerrik asko Ngarrindjeri: anu nginti Belarusian: дзякую (be) (dzjákuju) Bengali: (bn) (dhonnobad) Northeastern Thai: ขอบใจ (khawp jai) Northern Uzbek: рахмат (rahmat) Bhojpuri: (dhanyavad) धयवाद Norwegian: takk (no) Bosnian: hvala (bs) Ojibwe: miigwech, chi-miigwech, gichi-miigwech Breton: trugarez Omaha-Ponca: wiblaho Bulgarian: благодаря (bg) (blagodarjá), Oriya: (or) (dhanyabaad) мерси (bg) (mersí) Oromo: maharaba (om) Burmese: Palauan: sulang (kyei http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thank_you Page 2 of 5 thank you - Wiktionary 4/24/11 9:56 PM (ps) (mehrbani) ﻣﮧﺭﺑﺎﻧﯽ :my) (kyei Pashto) fa) (mamnúnam) (Iran, formal) ﳑﻨﻮﱎ :zu tin ba de) Persian Catalan: gràcies, moltes gràcies, mercès (fa) (mérsi) ﻣﺮﺳﯽ ,(fa) (motešakeram) ﻣﺘﺸﺮﻡ Cebuano: salamat Chamicuro: osolopaki fa) (tašákur) (Afghanistan) ﺗﺸﺮ ,(informal) Chinese: (fa) (sepasgozaram) ﺳﭙﺎﺳﮕﺰﺍﺭﻡ Cantonese: 唔該 (m-goi), 多謝 (do1 Polish: dziękuję (pl) ze6), 唔該 (m4 goi1) Portuguese: obrigado (said by male); obrigada Mandarin: 謝謝 (cmn), 谢 by female); bem haja 谢 (cmn) (xièxie), 多謝 (cmn), 多 Punjabi: ਸ਼ਕਿਰਆ (pa) (shukriya) 谢 (cmn) (duōxiè), (slang) 三 Quechua: agradiseyki Q (zh) (sānQ) Romanian: mulţumesc (ro), mersi (ro) Min Nan: 多謝 (do shia) Russian: спасибо (ru) (spasíbo), благодарю (ru) (blagodarjú) Cornish: meur ras Sanskrit: अनगरहीतोसिम (sa) (anugurihītosumi) Croatian: hvala (hr), mnogo hvala (hr), veoma Scottish Gaelic: tapadh leat (gd) (to one person, hvala (hr), zahvaljujem (hr), mnogo Vam informal), tapadh leibh (gd) (to one person, formal; hvala (hr) to more than one person); mòran (gd) taing (gd) Czech: děkuji (cs), děkuji vám (cs), děkuji ti (cs) Serbian: Danish: tak (da) Dutch: dank u, dank je, dankjewel, bedankt Cyrillic: Esperanto: dankon, mi dankas Roman: hvala Estonian: aitäh (et) Fijian: vinaka Serbo-Croatian: hvala (sh) Filipino: salamat (sd) (mehrbani) ﻣﮧﺭﺑﺎﻧﯽ ,(Sindhi: (mehrbani, shukar Finnish: kiitos (fi) (si) French: merci (fr), je vous remercie (fr) Sinhalese: (istuti), Fula: a jaraama (si) (stuti) Georgian: მადლობთ (madlobt‘), Slovak: ďakujem (I thank you), ďakujeme (we thank გმადლობთ (ka) you) (sl) German: danke (de), danke schön (de), vielen Slovene: hvala (tesekkur edirem) ﺗﺸﺮ ﺍﺪﺮﻢ :Dank (de) South Azerbaijani Spanish: gracias (es), muchas gracias (es) Bavarian: danksche Sundanese: nuhun (su) Swedish: tack (sv) Gilbertese: ko rabwa, kam rabwa (to several Tagalog: salamat (tl) people) Tajik: рахмат (tg) (rakhmat) Greek: (el) (efcharistó) (ta) (gu) Tamil: ந (nandri) Gujarati: આભાર (aabhaar) Telugu: Haitian Creole: mèsi http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thank_you Page 3 of 5 thank you - Wiktionary 4/24/11 9:56 PM Haitian Creole: mèsi Hausa: na gode (ha) (te) (dhanyavaadaalu) Hawaiian: mahalo Thai: ขอบคุณ (th) (kòp-kuun) (he) (todá) Tswana: ke a leboga (tn) תּוֹדָה :Hebrew (tr) (tr) Hindi: धयवाद (hi) (dhanyavād), Turkish: teşekkür ederim , mersi , teşekkürler (tr) शया (hi) (shukriyā), थय (hi) (thaikyū) Tzutujil: maltiox Hopi: kwakwhay m, askwali f Ukrainian: дякую (uk) (djákuju), Hungarian: köszönöm (hu) (first-person спасибi (uk) (spasýbi) ,(ur) (dhanya-vād) ﺩﮬﻨﯿﮧ ﻭﺍﺩ :singular), köszönjük (hu) (first-person plural) Urdu Icelandic: takk (is) (ur) (ur) (nevaziš) ﻧﻮﺍﺯﺵ ,(šukriyā) ﺷﺮﯾﮧ (Ido: danko (io), me dankas (io Igbo: dalu Vietnamese: cám n (vi) (感恩 (vi)) (plus one of: Indonesian: terimakasih (id), terima kasih (id), ông, bà, cô, anh, ch, em, quí v – depending on makasih (id) (informal) subject of gratitude) Inupiaq: quyanaq Welsh: diolch (cy) (shukriya) ﺷُﺮﯾﺎ :Irish: go raibh maith agat (to one person), go Western Panjabi raibh maith agaibh (to more than one person) (yi) אַ דאַנק ,(a dank) אַ דאַנק :Italian: grazie (it) Yiddish (yi) (a dank dir) דיר Japanese: ありがとう (ja) (arigatō), ありが Yoruba: e se (yo) とうございます (ja) (arigatō gozaimasu), ど Yup'ik (Central Alaskan): quyana うもありがとう (ja) (dōmo arigatō), どう Zhuang: dwgrengz mwngz loz (za) (dugreng mung lo) (literally: you worked hard) も (ja) (dōmo), サンキュー (ja) (sankyū), 大 Zulu: ngiyabonga (zu) きに (おおきに, ookini) (Osaka) Javanese: hatur nuwun (jv), nuwun sewu (jv) (many thanks, million thanks) Jingpho: chyeju kaba sai yaw Kannada: (kn) (dhanyavada) Kazakh: рахмет (kk) (rahmet) Khmer: (km) (or kun) Kiowa: áho Kongo: ntondele Korean: 고맙습니다 (ko) (gomapseumnida), 감사합니다 (ko) (gamsahamnida), 고마 워 (ko) (gomawoe) Add translation : http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thank_you Page 4 of 5 thank you - Wiktionary 4/24/11 9:56 PM Preview translation More Noun thank you (plural thank yous) 1. A specific expression of gratitude. References 1. ^ New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. See also many thanks thanks thanks a lot thank-you thankyou thank you very much "Thank you" in over 465 languages (http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/thankyou.htm) Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thank_you" Categories: English nouns | English phrasebook This page was last modified on 10 April 2011, at 17:55. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thank_you Page 5 of 5.
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