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Etymology [edit]
From the Old English þancian (“to give thanks”), from Proto-Germanic *þankōną, from Proto-Germanic *þankaz (“thought, gratitude”), from Proto-Indo-European *tong- (“to think, feel”).
Interjection [edit]
thanks
- Used to express appreciation or gratitude.
- Could you give me a hand, please? — Yes, sure. — Thanks.
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used to express appreciation or gratitude
- Afrikaans: dankie (af)
- Albanian: faleminderit
- American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack OpenB@FromChin-PalmUp
- Arabic: شكرًا (ar) (šúkran)
- Armenian: շնորհակալություն (hy) (šnorhakalut’yun) , մերսի (hy) (mersi)
- Azerbaijani: çox sağ ol (az), təşəkkür edirəm (az)
- Belarusian: дзякую (be) (dzjákuju)
- Bengali: ধন্যবাদ (bn) (dhônnôbad)
- Breton: trugarez (br)
- Bulgarian: благодаря (bg) (blagodarjá) , мерси (bg) (mersí)
- Catalan: gràcies (ca), mercès (ca), merci (ca)
- Chamicuro: osolopaki
- Cherokee: ᎠᎾᎵᎮᎵᎬ (chr) (analiheligv)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 多謝 (do1 ze6) (usually used for physical objects); 唔該 (m4 goi1), (for an act)
- Mandarin: 謝謝 (cmn), 谢谢 (cmn) (xièxie), 多謝 (cmn), 多谢 (cmn) (duōxiè), (slang) 三Q (cmn) (sānQ)
- Min Nan: 多謝 (do shia)
- Czech: díky (cs)
- Danish: tak (da)
- Dutch: bedankt (nl), dank je (nl), dank u (nl)
- Esperanto: dankon (eo)
- Estonian: tänan (et), aitäh (et)
- Ewe: akpe
- Faroese: takk (fo)
- Finnish: kiitos (fi), kiitti (fi), tattis (fi)
- French: merci (fr)
- Galician: grazas (gl), (informal) graciñas (gl)
- Georgian: მადლობთ (ka) (madlobt‘)
- German: danke (de)
- Greek: ευχαριστώ (el) (efcharistó)
- Hebrew: תּוֹדָה (he) (todá)
- Hindi: धन्यवाद (hi) (dhanyavād), शुक्रिया (hi) (shukriyā) (both are polite), थैंक्स (hi) (thaiṅks)
- Hungarian: köszönöm (hu); köszi (hu) (informal)
- Icelandic: takk (is) (informal), takk fyrir (is) (formal), þakka þér (is)
- Ido: danko (io)
- Indonesian: terima kasih (id)
- Irish: (to one person) go raibh maith agat (ga), (to more than one person) go raibh maith agaibh (ga)
- Italian: grazie (it)
- Japanese: ありがとう (ja) (arigatō), どうも (ja) (dōmo), サンキュー (ja) (sankyū)
- Jingpho: chyeju kaba sai
- Khmer: អរគុណ (km) (ɑɑ kun)
- Korean: 고마워 (ko) (gomawo), 감사합니다 (ko) (gamsa hamnida), 감사해요 (ko) (gamsa heyo)
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- Kurdish:
- Sorani: سوپاس (ku) (sopas)
- Latin: gratias ago (la)
- Latvian: paldies (lv)
- Lithuanian: ačiū (lt), dėkui (lt)
- Luganda: webale
- Luxembourgish: merci (lb)
- Macedonian: фала (mk) (fála)
- Maltese: grazzi (mt)
- Mongolian: баярлалаа (mn) (bayarlalaa)
- Nahuatl: tlazohcāmati (nah)
- Navajo: ahéheeʼ
- Norwegian: takk (no)
- Occitan: mercé (oc), mercés (oc)
- Palauan: sulang
- Papiamentu: danki
- Persian: ممنون (fa) (mamnun), سپاس (fa) (sepâs), مرسی (fa) (mersi)
- Polish: dziękuję (pl), dzięki (pl)
- Portuguese: obrigado (pt) m, obrigada (pt) f, valeu (pt) (informal, Brazil)
- Romanian: mulțumesc (ro), mersi (ro)
- Russian: спасибо (ru) (spasíbo) , благодарю (ru) (blagodarjú)
- Samoan: fa'afetai (sm)
- Scottish Gaelic: taing (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хва́ла (sh)
- Roman: hvála (sh)
- Sinhalese: ඉස්තුති (si) (istuti), ස්තුති (si) (stuti)
- Slovak: vďaka (sk)
- Slovene: hvála (sl)
- Spanish: gracias (es)
- Sranan Tongo: danki, tangi
- Swahili: asante (sw)
- Swedish: tack (sv), tackar (sv)
- Tagalog: salamat (tl)
- Tamil: நன்றி (ta) (naṉṟi)
- Telugu: ధన్యవాదాలు (dhanyavaadaalu)
- Thai: ขอบคุณ (th) (kòp-kuun)
- Turkish: teşekkürler (tr), teşekkür ederim (tr)
- Ukrainian: дякую (uk) (djákuju) , спасибi (uk) (spasýbi)
- Urdu: دھنیہ واد (ur) (dhanya-vād), شکریہ (ur) (šukriyā)
- Vietnamese: cám ơn (vi) (感恩 (vi)) (plus one of: ông, bà, cô, anh, chị, em, quí vị – depending on subject of gratitude)
- Welsh: diolch (cy)
- Yiddish: דאנק (yi) (Dank)
- Zulu: ngiyabonga (zu)
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thanks
- (obsolete) Plural form of thank
- (plural only) An expression of gratitude.
- After all I’ve done, a simple acknowledgment is all the thanks I get?
- Grateful feelings or thoughts.
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Translations [edit]
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thanks
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thank.
