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Maltese: Grazzi

Swahili: Asante

Armenian: Shnorhakalutiun

Afrikaans: Dankie

A'Leamona: Gra al or Gra
[pronounced grah or grah ahl]

Chinese: (Mandarin) Xie Xie
(谢谢）(Pronounced: Shyeh Shyeh)

Czech: Dekuju/Dekujeme

Bosnian: Hvala

Croatian: Hvala

Khmer (Cambodian): Or Kun

Vietnamese: Cam On [pronounced:
caam-ungh]

French: Merci

Finnish:Kiitos (sounds like: KEE-
tos. Like "toast" without the last
"t")

Bulgarian: Blagodariya

Italian: Grazie

Urdu: Shokriya [pronounced:
shook-ree-ah]

Polish: Dziękuję

German: Danke (schön) - (dahn-
kuh (shurn)

Spanish: Gracias

Greek: Euxaristo (efhar-ist-oh)

Lithuanian: Ačiū

Japanese: Arigatou [pronounced:
A-rii-gah-to'] (informal)/Domo
arigato gozaimasu [pronounced:
A-rii-gah-to' goh-zae-mas]
(formal)

Korean: Gomapsupnida
[pronounced: go-mahp-soop-nee-
dah]

Korean: Gamsahapnida
[pronounced: gam-sa-ham-nee-
dah]

Thai: Kop kun krap [if you're
male]/ Kop kun ka [if you're
female]

Dutch: Dank je [pronounced:
Dannk yuhh]or Bedankt
[pronounced: buh dannkt]

Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal,
etc): Obrigado [if you're male]/
Obrigada [if you're female]

Kurdish: Spaas

Persian: Mamnoon

Lao: Khopjai

Tamil: Nandree

Slovak: Dakujem [dyock-we-em]

Hebrew: Todah

Danish: Tak

Icelandic: Takk Fyrir

Turkish: Teşekkür ederim (Thank
You) Sağol (Thanks)

Nepali: Dhanyavaad (isn't said as
frequently as a thank you in
english)

Bengali: Dhonnobaad (written in
Bengali similar to Hindi)

Hindi: Dhanyavad or Shukriya

Mandarin Chinese: 谢谢 / Xiè Xiè
(pronouce it: she'eh, she'eh
(fast, and keep it short... don't
draw out anything)

Arabic: Shokrun

Tagalog: Salamat (po). (Thank
you, (sir/madam.)) Maraming
salamat (po).(Thank you very
much, (sir/madam.)) Maraming
salamat sa inyong lahat. (Many
thanks to all of you.)

English: Thank You

Malay: Terima Kasih

Welsh: Diolch

Russian: Спасибо (sounds like
spa-see-ba)

Romanian: Mulţumesc
(Multzumesc)

Albanian: Faleminderit

Norwegian: Takk - thanks, Tusen
Takk - thankyou very
much(direct translation:
thousand thanks)

Irish: Go raibh (míle) maith agat
[sounds: gu rev (me-la) mah agh-
ut] {means: (a million) thanks to
you}

Punjabi: "Dhan Waad"

Filipino: "Salamat"

Romanian: Mulţumesc(pronounced
mool-too-mesk)

Swedish: "Tack"

Telugu: "Dhanyavaadaalu" ;
"Kruthagnathalu"

Buryat: hайн даа (pronounce it:
hain daa)

Latin: Gratias tibi ago

Shona: Wazvita hako (singular),
mazvita henyu (plural or
respectfully)

Ndebele: Siyabonga