thanks

English

Alternative forms

• thx, thanx, 10x

Etymology

From Middle English thanks, thankes, from Old English þancas (“thanks”), from Proto-Germanic *þankōs, nominative plural of *þankaz (“thought, gratitude”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel”). More at thank.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θæŋks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /θæŋks/

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• Rhymes: -æŋks

Interjection

thanks

1. Used to express appreciation or gratitude.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:thank you

   Could you give me a hand, please? — Yes, sure. — Thanks.

   • ~1595, Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, scene 1

     Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!

Derived terms

• thanks a lot
• thanks, but no thanks
• thanks for asking
• thanks for nothing
• thanks for your help

Translations

used to express appreciation or gratitude

• Afrikaans: dankie (af)
• Albanian: faleminderit (sq), rrofsh (sq)
• Ambonese Malay: dangke
• American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack OpenB@FromChin-PalmUp
• Amharic: አመሰግናለሁ (ʾämäsägnalähu)
• Arabic: شُكْرًا‎ (šukran)

  Egyptian Arabic: شكرا‎ (šukran), مرسي‎ (mersī)

  Hijazi Arabic: شُكْرًا‎ (šukran), تِسْلَم‎ (tislam)

  Moroccan Arabic: شكرا‎ (šukran)

• Armenian: շնորհակալություն (hy) (šnorhakalutʿyun)
• Assamese: ধন্যবাদ (dhoinnobad), থেংকিউ (theṅkiu)
• Asturian: gracies
• Azerbaijani: çox sağ ol, təşəkkür edirəm
• Basque: eskerrik asko (eu), mila esker (eu), esker aunitz
• Belarusian: дзя́кую (dzjákuju), дзя́куй (dzjákuj), спасі́ба (spasíba)
• Bengali: ধন্যবাদ (bn) (dhônnôbad), শুকরিয়া (śukriẏa)
• Breton: trugarez (br)
• Bulgarian: благодаря́ (bg) (blagodarjá), мерси́ (bg) (mersí)
• Catalan: gràcies (ca), mercès (ca), merci (ca)
• Chamicuro: osolopaki
• Cherokee: ᎠᎾᎵᎮᎵᎬ (analiheligv), ᏩᏙ (chr) (wado)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 多謝 (yue), 多谢 (do¹ ze⁶) (for something received), 唔該 (yue), 唔该 (m⁴ goi¹) (for something performed)

  Dungan: рахмат (rahmat), дуәще (duəxi͡ə)

  Mandarin: 謝謝 (zh), 谢谢 (zh) (xièxie), 多謝 (zh), 多谢 (zh) (duōxiè), (slang) 三Q (zh) (sānkiù)

  Min Nan: 多謝 (zh-min-nan), 多谢 (to-siā)

• Chukchi: рэӄуԓымӈэ (rėquḷymṇė), вэԓынкыӄун (vėḷynkyqun)
• Cia-Cia: tarima kasi, 따리마 까시
• Cornish: meur ras
• Czech: díky (cs)
• Danish: tak (da)
• Dutch: bedankt (nl), dank je, dank u (nl), thanks (nl) (informal), merci (nl) (Belgium, informal)
• Esperanto: dankon (eo)
• Estonian: tänan, aitäh (et)
• Ewe: akpe
• Faroese: takk
• Finnish: kiitos (fi), kiitti (fi)
• French: merci (fr)
• Galician: grazas, (informal) graciñas
• Garo: mitela
• Georgian: გმადლობთ (gmadlobt), მადლობა (madloba), გმადლობ (gmadlob)
• German: danke (de)
• Greek: ευχαριστώ (el) (efcharistó)

  Ancient: εὐχαριστῶ (eukharistô)

• Hebrew: תּוֹדָה‎ (he) (todá), חֵן חֵן‎ (he) (khén khén)
• Hindi: धन्यवाद (hi) (dhanyavād), शुक्रिया (hi) (śukriyā), थैंक्स (thaiṅks), थैंक्यू (thaiṅkyū)
• Hungarian: köszönöm (hu), köszi (hu) (informal)
• Icelandic: takk (is) (informal), takk fyrir (is) (formal), þakka þér
• Ido: danko (io)
• Igbo: ị́mẹ̄lá
• Inari Sami: takkâ
• Indonesian: terima kasih (id)
• Irish: (to one person) go raibh maith agat, (to more than one person) go raibh maith agaibh
• Italian: grazie (it)
• Japanese: ありがとう (ja) (arigatō), どうも (dōmo), ありがとうございます (ja) (arigatō gozaimasu)
• Jingpho: chyeju kaba sai
• Kazakh: сізге рахмет (sizge raxmet), рақмет сізге (raqmet sizge)
• Khmer: អរគុណ (ʼɑɑ kun)
• Korean: 고마워 (gomawo), 고맙다 (ko) (gomapda), 고마워요 (gomawoyo), 고맙습니다 (gomapseumnida)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوپاس‎ (supas), سپاس‎ (ku) (spas)

  Northern Kurdish: spas (ku), memnûn (ku), teşekur (ku)

• Kyrgyz: рахмат (ky) (rahmat), ыракмат (ky) (ıraqmat)
• Ladino: grasias, mersi, shukur

• Lao: ຂໍຂອບໃຈ (khǭ khǭp chai), ຂອບໃຈ (khǭp chai)
• Latin: gratias (la), gratias ago
• Latvian: paldies
• Lithuanian: ačiū (lt), dėkui (lt)
• Luganda: webale
• Luxembourgish: merci (lb)
• Macedonian: фала (fala), благодарам (blagodaram)
• Malay: terima kasih (ms)
• Maltese: grazzi (mt)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: баярлалаа (bayarlalaa)

• Nahuatl: tlazohcāmati (nah)
• Navajo: ahéheeʼ
• Nepali: धन्यवाद (dhanyavād)
• Northern Sami: giitu
• Norwegian: takk (no)
• Occitan: mercé (oc), mercés (oc)
• Old English: þancas ic dō, þancas ic secge
• Palauan: sulang
• Papiamentu: danki
• Pashto: مننه‎ (manëna)
• Persian: ممنون‎ (fa) (mamnun), سپاس‎ (fa) (sepâs), مرسی‎ (fa) (mersi), تشکر‎ (fa) (tašakkor)
• Polish: dziękuję (pl), dzięki (pl)
• Portuguese: obrigado (pt) m, obrigada (pt) f, valeu (informal, Brazil)
• Rajasthani: धनवाद (dhanavād), धिनवाद (dhinavād)
• Romanian: mulțumesc (ro), mersi (ro)
• Russian: спаси́бо (ru) (spasíbo), благодарю́ (ru) (blagodarjú)
• Samoan: fa'afetai
• Sanskrit: धन्यवादान m pl (dhanyavādāna), अनुगृहीतोऽस्मि (anugṛhīto’smi)
• Scots: thank
• Scottish Gaelic: taing
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хва́ла

  Roman: hvála (sh)

• Sinhalese: ඉස්තුති (istuti), ස්තුති (stuti)
• Skolt Sami: späʹsseb
• Slovak: vďaka, ďakujem
• Slovene: hvála (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źěkujom se

• Spanish: gracias (es)
• Sranan Tongo: danki, tangi
• Swahili: asante
• Swedish: tack (sv), tackar (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠡꠥꠇ꠆ꠞꠤꠀ (śukria), ꠗꠂꠘ꠆ꠘꠛꠣꠖ (dóinnobad)
• Tagalog: salamat (tl)
• Tajik: ташаккур (tg) (tašakkur), раҳмат (rahmat)
• Tamil: நன்றி (ta) (naṉṟi)
• Telugu: ధన్యవాదాలు (te) (dhanyavādālu)
• Thai: ขอบคุณ (th) (kɔ̀ɔp-kun)
• Tigrinya: የመስግነካ (yämäsgənäka)
• Tlingit: gunalchéesh
• Turkish: sağ ol (tr), teşekkürler (tr), teşekkür ederim (tr)
• Turkmen: sagboluň, spasiba
• Ukrainian: дя́кую (djákuju), спаси́бі (uk) (spasýbi)
• Unami: wanìshi
• Urdu: شکریہ‎ (ur) (šukriya), مہربانی‎ (meharbānī), دھنیہ واد‎ (dhanya-vād) (rarely by Hindus)
• Uyghur: رەھمەت‎‎ (rehmet‎)
• Uzbek: rahmat (uz), tashakkur (uz)
• Vietnamese: cám ơn (vi) (感恩) (plus one of: ông, bà, cô, anh, chị, em, quí vị – depending on subject of gratitude)
• Welsh: diolch (cy)
• West Frisian: tankewol, tanke
• Yiddish: דאַנק‎ (dank)
• Yup'ik: quyana
• Zulu: ngiyabonga (zu)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: (2) ^{(please verify)} faleminderit (sq)
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} aitäh (et), ^{(please verify)} tänan

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} mulțumiri f pl, (2)

Noun

thanks

1. plural of thank

thanks (uncountable)

2. An expression of gratitude.

   After all I’ve done, a simple acknowledgment is all the thanks I get?

3. Grateful feelings or thoughts.

Derived terms

• thanks to

Translations

expression of gratitude

• American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack OpenB@FromChin-PalmUp
• Bengali: শুকরিয়া (śukriẏa)
• Bulgarian: призна́телност (bg) m (priznátelnost), благода́рност (bg) (blagodárnost)
• Catalan: mercè (ca) f, mercès (ca) f, gràcies (ca) f pl
• Czech: díky (cs) m pl
• Danish: tak (da) c
• Dutch: bedankt (nl)
• Ewe: akpe n
• Faroese: tøkk, takk
• Finnish: kiitos (fi), kiitokset
• French: remerciements m pl
• Galician: grazas f pl
• German: Dank (de) m, Danksagung f
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌲𐌺𐍃 m (þagks)
• Greek: ευχαριστώ (el) n (efcharistó)
• Hebrew: תּוֹדָה‎ (he) (todá)

• Hungarian: köszönet (hu)
• Hunsrik: Dank m
• Icelandic: þökk (is) f, þakkargerð f, þakkargjörð f
• Japanese: 謝辞 (ja) (shaji)
• Plautdietsch: Dank m
• Polish: podzięka (pl) f, podziękowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: agradecimentos m pl
• Romanian: mulțumiri f pl
• Russian: благода́рность (ru) f (blagodárnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: taing f
• Spanish: gracias (es) f pl
• Swedish: tack (sv) n
• Tamil: நன்றி (ta) (naṉṟi)
• Ukrainian: подя́ка f (podjáka)
• Volapük: dan (vo)

grateful feelings

• American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack OpenB@FromChin-PalmUp
• Bulgarian: призна́телност (bg) m (priznátelnost), благода́рност (bg) (blagodárnost)
• Dutch: dank (nl) m
• Finnish: kiitokset pl
• French: remerciement (fr) m
• German: Dank (de) m
• Greek: ευχαριστία (el) f (efcharistía), ευγνωμοσύνη (el) f (evgnomosýni)

  Ancient: εὐχαρστία f (eukharstía)

• Hungarian: hála (hu)
• Italian: ringraziamento (it)
• Portuguese: gratidão (pt) f, agradecimento (pt)
• Russian: благода́рность (ru) f (blagodárnostʹ)
• Spanish: agradecimiento (es)
• Swedish: tack (sv) n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} vďaka

• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} salamat (tl)

Verb

thanks

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thank

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Etymology

Borrowed from English thanks.

Interjection

thanks

1. (informal) thanks

   Synonyms: bedankt, dank je, dank u, dank je wel, dank u wel

   Thanks dat je de vaat gisterenavond gedaan had, ik had er zelf geen tijd voor.

   Thanks for doing the dishes yesterday evening, I didn't have time for it myself.