How to say “thank” in 43 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- agradezco/aɡɾaˈdeθko/ Spanish
- شكر/ʃukr/ Arabic
- നന്ദി/n̪ɐn̪n̪i/ Malayalam
“thank” in Spanish: agradezco · German: danken · Italian: ringrazio · Arabic: شكر
It is commonest in Malayalam, where നന്ദി is the 35th most used word.
Thank in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian faleminderit[falɛmnˈdɛɹit] thank you #77
- Arabic شكر/ʃukr/ to thank, to be thankful, to be grateful #1,473
- Armenian շնորհակալություն/ʃ(ə)noɾ(h)ɑkɑluˈtʰjun/ thank you, thanks #293
- Basque eskertu/es̺kertu/ to thank #849
- Bengali ধন্যবাদ/d̪ʱonːobad̪/ thank you #70
- Bosnian zahvaliti/zaxʋǎːliti/ to thank #1,954
- Bulgarian благодаря[bɫɐɡodɐˈrʲɤ̟] thanks, thank you #69
- Catalan agraeixo/əɣɾəˈɛʃu/ to thank, to be grateful #1,862
- Chinese 謝謝/ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹ ɕi̯ɛ¹/ thanks; thank you #178
- Croatian zahvaliti/zaxʋǎːliti/ to thank #1,344
- Czech děkuji[ˈɟɛkujɪ] thank you #189
- Danish tak/tak/ to thank #66
- Dutch bedankt/bəˈdɑŋkt/ to thank #170
- Esperanto dankon/ˈdankon/ thank you #85
- Estonian tänan/ˈtænɑn/ thank you, thanks #101
- Finnish kiittää/ˈkiːtːæːˣ/ to thank, express one's gratitude #1,285
- French merci/mɛʁ.si/ thank you #94
- Georgian გმადლობთ[ɡ̊mädɫo̞btʰ] thank you #465
- German danken[ˈdaŋkn̩] to thank #1,418
- Greek ευχαριστώ/ef.xa.ɾiˈsto/ thank you!, thanks! #75
- Hindi धन्यवाद/d̪ʱən.jə.ʋɑːd̪/ thanks, thank you #143
- Hungarian köszönöm[ˈkøsønøm] thank you #64
- Icelandic takk[ˈtʰahk] thank you, thanks #73
- Italian ringrazio/rinˈɡrat.t͡sjo/ to thank #1,240
- Korean 감사합니다[ˈka̠(ː)msʰa̠ɦa̠mnida̠] thank you #155
- Latvian paldies/pɑldies/ thank you #55
- Lithuanian ačiū[²ˈɑːt͡ʃʲu̟ː] thank you #60
- Malayalam നന്ദി/n̪ɐn̪n̪i/ #35
- Norwegian takk/tak/ to thank #83
- Persian ممنونم[mæm.nuː.nǽm] thank you #253
- Polish dziękuję/d͡ʑɛŋˈku.jɛ/ thank you #95
- Portuguese obrigado/o.bɾiˈɡa.du/ thanks; thank you #118
- Romanian mulțumesc[mult͡suˈmesk] thank you #807
- Russian спасибо[spaˈsʲibə] thank you, thanks #64
- Serbian zahvaliti/zaxʋǎːliti/ to thank #2,463
- Slovak ďakujem/ɟakujem/ thanks, thank you #76
- Spanish agradezco/aɡɾaˈdeθko/ to thank #1,692
- Swedish tack/tak/ thanks, thank you #76
- Tagalog salamat/saˈlamat/ thank you #74
- Tamil நன்றி/nɐnriː/ thanks, thank you #49
- Telugu ధన్యవాదాలు/d̪ʱanjaʋaːd̪aːlu/ thank you #46
- Ukrainian дякую[ˈdʲakʊjʊ] thank you #92
- Urdu شکریہ/ʃʊk.ɾɪj.ɑ(ː)/ thanks, thank you #93
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.