thanks

English

Alternative forms

• thx, thanx, tnx, 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, General American) IPA^(key): /θæŋks/
  • (British Pakistani) IPA^(key): /t̪ʰaŋks/
  • (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ðæŋks/

• Audio (US):

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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.

   Your last gift, for which thanks, made my family so happy.

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

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

Derived terms

• many thanks
• no thanks
• no thanks to
• thanks a bunch
• thanks a heap
• thanks a lot
• thanks a million
• thanks a ton
• thanks be
• thanks, but no thanks
• thanks for asking
• thanks for coming
• thanks for coming to my TED Talk
• thanks for nothing
• thanks for your help
• thanks in advance
• vote of thanks

 

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)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܦܵܝ (ṣpāy)

• Armenian: շնորհակալություն (hy) (šnorhakalutʻyun)
• Assamese: ধন্যবাদ (dhoinnobad), থেংকিউ (theṅkiu)
• Asturian: gracies (ast)
• 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) (dhonnobad), শুকরিয়া (bn) (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 / 多谢 (yue) (do¹ ze⁶) (for something received), 唔該 / 唔该 (yue) (m⁴ goi¹) (for something performed)

  Dungan: рахмат (rahmat), дуәще (duəxi͡ə)

  Hokkien: 多謝 / 多谢 (zh-min-nan) (to-siā / to-siǎ / to͘-siā)

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

• 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 (nl), 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 (tha͠iks), थैंक्यू (tha͠ikyū)
• 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 (ja) (dōmo), ありがとうございます (ja) (arigatō gozaimasu)
• Jingpho: chyeju kaba sai
• Kazakh: сізге рахмет (sızge raxmet), рақмет сізге (raqmet sızge)
• Khiamniungan Naga: thēumēi
• Khmer: អរគុណ (ʼɑɑ kun)
• Korean: 고마워 (gomawo), 고맙다 (ko) (gomapda), 고마워요 (gomawoyo), 고맙습니다 (gomapseumnida)
• Kurdish:

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

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

• Kyrgyz: рахмат (ky) (rahmat), ыракмат (ky) (ırakmat)
• Ladino: grasias, mersi, shukur
• Lao: ຂໍຂອບໃຈ (khǭ khǭp chai), ຂອບໃຈ (khǭp chai)
• Latin: gratias (la), gratias ago
• Latvian: paldies (lv)
• Lithuanian: ačiū (lt), dėkui (lt)
• Luganda: webale
• Luxembourgish: merci (lb)
• Macedonian: фала (fala), благодарам (blagodaram)
• Malay: terima kasih (ms)
• Maltese: grazzi (mt)
• Marwari: धनवाद (dhanvād), धिनवाद (dhinvād)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: баярлалаа (bajarlalaa)

• Nahuatl: tlazohcāmati (nah)
• Navajo: ahéheeʼ
• Nepali: धन्यवाद (dhanyavād)
• Nheengatu: kwekatú
• 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)
• Romanian: mulțumesc (ro), mersi (ro)
• Russian: спаси́бо (ru) (spasíbo), благодарю́ (ru) (blagodarjú)
• Samoan: fa'afetai
• Sanskrit: धन्यवादान m pl (dhanyavādāna), अनुगृहीतोऽस्मि (anugṛhītoʼsmi)
• Scots: thank
• Scottish Gaelic: taing
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хва́ла

  Roman: hvála (sh)

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

  Lower Sorbian: źěkujom se

• Spanish: gracias (es)
• Sranan Tongo: danki, tangi
• Swahili: asante (sw), nashukuru
• Swedish: tack (sv), tackar (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠡꠥꠇ꠆ꠞꠤꠀ (śukria), ꠗꠂꠘ꠆ꠘꠛꠣꠖ (dóinnobad)
• Tagalog: salamat (tl)
• Tajik: ташаккур (tg) (tašakkur), раҳмат (rahmat)
• Tamil: நன்றி (ta) (naṉṟi)
• Tatar: рәхмәт (tt) (räxmät)
• 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 (uk) (djákuju), спаси́бі (uk) (spasýbi)
• Unami: wanìshi
• Urdu: شُکْرِیَہ (ur) (śukriya), نَوَازِش (navāziś), مِہَرْبانی (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. 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 pl (normally plural, singular (obsolete) thank)

2. An expression of appreciation or gratitude.

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

3. Grateful feelings or thoughts; favour, goodwill, graciousness.

Noun

thanks

1. (obsolete) plural of thank

Derived terms

• thanks to

Translations

expression of gratitude

• American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack OpenB@FromChin-PalmUp
• Bengali: ধন্যবাদ (bn) (dhonnobad), শুকরিয়া (bn) (śukriẏa)
• Bulgarian: призна́телност (bg) m (priznátelnost), благода́рност (bg) (blagodárnost)
• Catalan: mercè (ca) f, mercès (ca) f, gràcies (ca) f pl
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 多謝 / 多谢 (zh-min-nan) (to-siā / to-siǎ / to͘-siā)

• Czech: díky (cs) m pl
• Danish: tak (da) c
• Dutch: bedankt (nl)
• Esperanto: danko
• 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)
• Oromo: galata
• 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
• Sidamo: galata
• Spanish: gracias (es) f pl
• Swedish: tack (sv) n
• Tagalog: salamat (tl), pagsasalamat
• 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. 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 of thank

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English thanks.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛŋks/

Interjection

thanks

1. (informal) thanks

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

   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.