to whom it may concern

English

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Prepositional phrase

to whom it may concern

1. Used as a formal salutation in a letter when the writer does not know the recipient or the identity of the recipient.

   Synonyms: to those it may concern, to whom this may concern, (initialism) TWIMC

Usage notes

• Often capitalized.

Translations

phrase used to begin a formal letter to an unknown recipient

• Arabic: إِلَى مَنْ يَهُمُّهُ الْأَمْرُ (ila man yahummuhu l-'amru)
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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 敬啟者 / 敬启者 (jìngqǐzhě)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: voor wie het aangaat
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vastaanottajalle
• French: à qui de droit (fr)
• Galician: a quen poida interesar
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: sehr geehrte Damen und Herren
• Greek: προς κάθε ενδιαφερόμενο (pros káthe endiaferómeno)
• Hebrew: לְכָל מָאן דְּבָעֵי (he) (lekhol man deva'ey), לכל המעוניין (lekhol hame'unyan)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: mindenkinek, akit illet, mindazoknak, akit illet, annak, akit illet, Tisztelt Címzett (literally “Dear Recipient”)
• Icelandic: til þess er málið varðar
• Italian: a chi di dovere
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ចំពោះអ្នកណាដែលវាអាចព្រួយបារម្ភ (cɑmpŭəh nĕək naa dael viə ʼaac pruəy baarɑm)
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• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: til hvem det måtte angå

  Nynorsk: til rette vedkomande

• Polish: zaświadczenie (pl), do wszystkich zainteresowanych
• Portuguese: a quem possa interessar, a quem de direito
• Russian: для предъявле́ния по ме́сту тре́бования (dlja predʺjavlénija po méstu trébovanija), всем заинтересо́ванным ли́цам (vsem zainteresóvannym lícam), тем, кого́ э́то каса́ется (tem, kovó éto kasájetsja)
• Spanish: a quien corresponda, a quien pueda concernir
• Swedish: till den det vederbör sg, till den det berör sg, till dem det vederbör pl, till dem det berör pl
• Tagalog: sa kinauukulan
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sayın ilgili
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• dear Sir or Madam
• Dear Sirs or Madams
• noverint universi per præsentes (Latin)

Further reading

• to whom it may concern on Wikipedia.Wikipedia