Saying "Thanks" Around The World

Expressing Gratitude In Different Languages

This information comes from: The Hodayah Page

Amharic (Ethiopia)

(AH muh seh g'NAH lo)?

Arabic

shukran (SHOO krahn)

Bakweri (SW Cameroon)

(maa SOO maa)

Bangla (Bangladesh)

(DEN no vaht)

Bulgarian

blagodaria (BLAH go dahr YAH)

Cantonese (Hong Kong)

(DOE jeh)

Catalan (Spain)

gracies (GRAH shee esh?)

Dutch

dank ye vell (dahnk ye VELL)

English

thank you, thanks, thank you very much

Esperanto (International)

dankon

Ewe (Togo; Ghana) [pron. EH weh]

akpe (ah[k] PAI)

Farsi (Persian--Iran)

(mo ti SHAH ke RAHM), (MEHR see), (tah sha KOOR)

Fon (Gabon)

ablo (AH blow)

Foulani (West & Central Africa)

diarama (DYAH ra ma)

French

merci (mehr SEE)

Ga (Ghana)

oyiwara dong (OY zhi wah ra, DAWNG\?)

Gaelic (Ireland)

mafgarna (MAHF gar nah)?

German

danke schoen (DAHNG ke shern)

Greek

(ef fah ree STAW)

Gujarati (W. India)

aabhar (ahb HAHR)

Hausa (Nigeria, etc.)

nugode (noo GOE dae) or yawa (YAH wahhh...)

Hebrew

todah (toe DAH), todah rabbah (rah BAH)

Hindi (India)

dhaniawad (DHAN ya wad) See also Urdu.

Ibo (S.E. Nigeria):

Italian

grazie (GROTS yeh)

Japanese

arigato (ah ree GAH toe), domo arigato

Kashmiri (N. India/Pakistan/China)

shukria

Kazakh (Kazakhstan)

rakhmat (rakh MAHT)

Korean

gomapsunmida (go mahp SOON mee dah), (kom SAHN mee dah)

Magyar (Hungarian)

(KER se nem)

Mandarin (China)

(shyeh shyeh)

Mina (Gabon)

apke (ah P'? ay)

Nepalese

danievad (DAHN ya vaht)

Polish

(jen KOO yeh)

Portuguese

obrigado (awb ri GAH doe)

Russian

(spah SEE bah)

Serbo-Croatian

hvala (KHVAH la)

Sherpa (Nepal)

thuchiche (too cheh CHEH)

Spanish

gracias (GRAH syahs), muchas gracias (MOO chahs)

Swahili (E. Africa):

Tagalog (Philippines)

salamat (sah LAH maht)

Thai (Thailand)

korp kuhn ka(females)/klap(males)

Taiwanese

do sha (doe SHYAH)

Tajik (Tajikstan)

(tah sha KOOR)

Tibetan

thuchiche (TOO cheh cheh)

Tigrenya (Eritrea/Ethiopia)

(y' RUN y' lee) ["R" pron as in Span. or like Arabic ghimel]

Turkish

sogal (sahl), (rakh MAHT?)

Twi (Ghana)

mi da waase (mee dah WAH say)

Urdu (Pakistan)

shukria (SHOO kree ah)

Uzbek (Uzbekikstan)

(rakh MAHT), (tah sha KOOR) (?)

Visaya (Philippines)

gracia (GRAH see ahs)

Welsh (Wales, UK)

diolch yn fawr (DYOLX uhn VOWR) [Pronounce the 'ch' as in German.]

Wolof (Gabon)

dje re dief (jeh re JEFF)

Yiddish (E. Europe, U.S., Israel)

a dank (ah DAHNK)

Yoruba (W. Africa)

a dupe (ah DOO pae) or ocheum (OH cheh oom)