Thanksgiving is amazing! Despite it being America’s favorite holiday, the fourth Thursday in November has been diminished to being that holiday that’s in between Halloween and Christmas. Come on folks! Thanksgiving is a time when we gather with friends and family and give, well, thanks for all we have been given over the past year. (Let’s not forget about all the sides and pies…and football!) This year, we thought it would be fun to turn the holiday into an international affair by teaching you how to say “thank you” in different languages. How’s 50 different ways? As a fun Thanksgiving activity, whether in between courses, or even naps, try out the different ways to say “thanks” or have folks guess which country the word comes from. You can thank us later…
Thank you in 50 international dialects
- Afrikaans: dankie
- Arabic: shoukran
- Armenian: shnorhakalutiun
- Bengali: dhannyabad
- Bulgarian: blagodariya
- Cambodian: orkun
- Chinese, Cantonese: do jeh
- Chinese, Mandarin: xie xie
- Croatian: hvala
- Czech: dekuju
- Danish: tak
- Fijian: vinaka
- Finnish: kiitos
- French: merci
- Gaelic: go raibh maith agat
- German: danke
- Greek: efharisto
- Haitian: mèsi
- Hebrew: toda
- Hindi: shoukriah [or] dhanya wad
- Icelandic: takk
- Indonesian: terima kasih
- Irish (Northern): Nice one bro’r OR Cheers mucker
- Italian: grazie
- Japanese: arigato
- Korean: kamsa hamnida
- Latin: gratias ago
- Latvian: paldies
- Lithuanian: attyu
- Laotian: kob chie
- Malay: terima kasih
- Maltese: grazzi
- Maori: kiaora koe
- Norwegian: takk
- Persian: mamnun
- Polish: dziekuje
- Portuguese: obrigado
- Romanian: multsumesc
- Russian: spasibo
- Slovakian: dakujem
- Somali: mahadsanid
- Spanish: gracias
- Swahili: ahsante
- Swedish: tack
- Thai: kabkoon krup (if you are a male), kabkoon ka (if you are a female)
- Turkish: teshekur ederim
- Uzbek: rahmat
- Vietnamese: cam on
- Welsh: diolch yn fawr
- Zulu: ngiyabonga
