Of present subjunctive mood; semantically equivalent to God be thanked.
thank God!
- Used to express gratitude or relief, usually literally (religiously) but sometimes figuratively (nonreligiously).
- Synonym: thanks be
- Near-synonyms: (synonymous in nonliteral usage) thank goodness, thank heavens; (similar intent) praise be, praise be to God, praise the Lord; (non-Abrahamic, including polytheistic, often facetiously/nonreligiously) thank gods, thank Goddess, thank goddesses; (irreverently, obscenely) thank fuck
1943 December, Herbert L. Bregstein, “The Armored Force and the Camera”, in Popular Photography, volume 13, number 6, page 77:There is the story of the famous Hollywood glamour photographer who cooled his heels around Washington for three months while waiting for one of our leading commanders, and then was granted exactly 15 minutes for the sitting. […] Our military leaders simply don't have time for such trivia. Thank God!
exclamation of gratitude or relief
- Arabic: الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ḥamdu lillāhi), الشُّكْرُ لِلّٰهِ (aš-šukru lillāhi)
- Bashkir: Аллаға шөкөр (Allağa şökör), әлхәмделлила (əlxəmdellila)
- Belarusian: сла́ва бо́гу (sláva bóhu), дзя́куй бо́гу (dzjákuj bóhu)
- Bulgarian: сла́ва бо́гу (sláva bógu)
- Catalan: gràcies a Déu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 謝天謝地 / 谢天谢地 (zh) (xiètiānxièdì)
- Corsican: grazia à Diu
- Czech: bohudíky (cs), díky bohu, chvála Bohu
- Danish: gudskelov (da)
- Dutch: godzijdank (nl)
- Estonian: tänu Jumalale, jumal tänatud
- Finnish: Jumalan kiitos
- French: Dieu merci (fr), Dieu soit loué (fr)
- Galician: Deus o pague
- German: Gott sei Dank (de), gottseidank (de)
- Greek: δόξα τω Θεώ (el) (dóxa to Theó)
- Hebrew: תּוֹדָה לָאֵל (todá la'el), ברוך השם (he) (barúkh hashém), השבח לאל (hashévakh la'el)
- Hindi: शुक्र है (śukra hai)
- Hungarian: hála istennek (hu), hála Istennek (hu)
- Hunsrik: Gott sei Dank
- Icelandic: Guði sé lof
- Irish: buíochas le Dia
- Italian: grazie a Dio m
- Japanese: 良かった (よかった, yokatta), ありがたい (ja) (arigatai)
- Kazakh: құдайға шүкір (qūdaiğa şükır)
- Korean: 다행히 (ko) (dahaenghi)
- Latin: Deo gratias
- Lithuanian: ačiū Dievui
- Macedonian: фала Богу (fala Bogu)
- Maltese: għall-grazzja ta’ Alla
- Ngazidja Comorian: alhamdu lillahi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gudskjelov
- Nynorsk: gudskjelov
- Old English: Gode þanc
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: خُدا را شُکْر (xodâ râ šokr), خُدا رو شُکْر (xodâ ru šokr) (colloquial), اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰه (alhamdo lellâh)
- Polish: chwała Bogu, dzięki Bogu (pl)
- Portuguese: graças a Deus
- Romanian: slavă Domnului
- Russian: сла́ва бо́гу (ru) (sláva bógu)
- Scottish Gaelic: taing do Dhia
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хвала Богу
- Roman: hvala Bogu
- Slovak: chvalabohu, vďakabohu, vďaka Bohu
- Slovene: hvala Bogu
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: chwaliśboga
- Spanish: gracias a Dios, bendito sea Dios
- Swedish: tack gode Gud, gudskelov (sv)
- Tajik: худоро шукр (xudoro šukr)
- Turkish: Allah'a şükür
- Ukrainian: сла́ва бо́гу (uk) (sláva bóhu)
- Urdu: اَللّٰہ کا شُکْر ہَے (allāh kā śukr hai), اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰہ (alhamdu lillāh)
- Uzbek: xudoga shukr
- Cyrillic: худога шукр (xudoga shukr)
- Welsh: diolch i Dduw
- Western Panjabi: اللہ دا شکر اے (allāh da shukar ae), الحمد اللہ (alhamdulillāh)
- Yiddish: גאָט צו דאַנקן (got tsu dankn), ברוך השם (borekh hashem)
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