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Afrikaans DAHN-kie
Albanian fah-leh-meen-DEH-reet
Amharic a-ma-sag-ge-NAL-loo
Arabic shoe-KRA-an
Armenian shno-ra-ka-loo-TYOON (merci) MEHR-see
Azerbaijani te-shek-kur ed’ram)
Bengali dhon-no-baad)
Bosnian HVAH-lah
Brazilian Portuguese oh-bree-GAH-doo
Bulgarian bla-go-da-RIA MEHR-see (merci)
Burmese Kyeizu tin ba de
Chinese Cantonese daw-DYEH
Chinese Mandarin shieh-shieh
Croatian HVAH-lah)
Czech deh-KOO-yih
Danish TAHG
Dutch dahnk oo dahnk-uh-wel
Estonian
   tänan (TA-nahn)
   aitäh  — more common
Farsi / Persian HKEJ-li mam-NOON-am; merci
Finnish
   kiitos (key-toss)
French

How to say thank you in French:

   merci (MEHR-see)
Georgian gmahd-lohbt) — formal
   გმადლობ (gmahd-lohb) — informal
German danke (dahn-kah)
Greek efharisto (ef-hah-rees-TOH)
Gujarati
   dhanyavaad (Dhan-ya-bad) ધન્યવાદ
   aabhar આભાર
Haitian Creole mesi/anpil (meh-SEE/on-PEEL)
Hausa
   na gode
Hebrew
   toda (toh-dah) .תודה
Hindi
   sukria (shoo-kree-a)
   dhanyavād (Dhan-ya-bad)
Hungarian

How to say thank you in Hungarian:

   köszönöm (KØ-sø-nøm)
Indonesian Bahasa
   terima kasih (Tur-EE-mah KAH-see)
Italian

Thank you in Italian:

   grazie (GRAHTS-yeh)
Japanese

Say thank you in Japanese:

   arigato (ah-ree-GAH-toh)
Kazakh
   raqmet (rakh-met) көп рақмет
Korean

Thank you in Korean:

   kamsa hamnida (GAM-sah-ham-NEE-da)
Kurdish
   spas dikim 
Kyrgyz
   rakhmat (rah-maat)
Lao
   khawp jai ຂອບໃຈ
Latvian
   paldies (PUHL-dyehs)
Lingala
   melesi
Lithuanian

Thank you in Lithuanian:

   ačiū (AH-choo)
Luganda
   webale
Macedonian
   blagodaram (blah-GOH-dah-rahm) Благодарам
Marathi dhanyavad
Mongolian bayarlalaa Баярлалаа
Nepali dhanyavād (Dhan-ya-bad) ढन्यबाद्
Norwegian
   takk (tahk)
Pashto

Thank you in Pashto:

   manana
Polish

Say thank you in Polish:

   dziekuje (dsyen-koo-yeh)
Portuguese
   obrigado (oh-bree-GAH-doo) as a male
   obrigada (oh-bree-GAH-dah) as a female
Punjabi
   tuhādā dhanavāda (Tu-haa-da Dhan-ya-bad)
Romanian

Say thank you in Romanian:

   mulţumesc (mool-tzoo-MESK)
   merci (MEHR-see)
Serbian
   hvala (HVAH-lah) xвала
Slovak
   Ďakujem (JAH-koo-yehm)
Slovenian
   hvala (HVAA-lah)
Somali
   mahadsanid (maHAD SaNid)
Spanish
   gracias (GRAH-syahs)
Sundanese
   hatur nuhun

Sundanese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 39 million people mainly in western Java in Indonesia. There are also speakers in Banten, Jakarta, parts of western Central Java and southern Lampung. It is the third most-spoken language in Indonesia.

Swahili
   asante (ah-sahn-teh)
Swedish tack (tahkk)
Tagalog Filipino
   salamat po (sa-LAH-maht poh) – formal
   Salamat (sa-LAH-maht) – informal
Tajik

Thank you in Tajik:

   sipos сипос
Tamil nan-DREE
Tatar
   räxmät (rah-mat) Рәхмәт
Telugu dhan-ya-BAD-da-loo
Thai

Thank you in Thai:

   khop khun khaa (cap-coohn KHAA) as a female
   khob khun krap (cap-coohn KRAP) as a male
Tibetan
   thu-je-che ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་།
Turkish

Thank you in Turkish:

   tesekkür ederim (teh-sheh-kur eh-deh-rim)

Turkish is a Turkic language believed to be of the Altaic language family spoken mainly in Turkey, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus and other countries of the former Ottoman Empire by about 88 million people.

Turkmen
   sag boluň
Ukrainian

Thank you in Ukrainian is:

   dyakuyu (DYAH-koo-yoo) Дякую

Ukrainian is an Eastern Slavic language spoken mainly in Ukraine by about 51 million people.

Urdu
   ab ka Shukriya آپ کا شکریہ
Uzbek
   rahmat (RAH-mat)

Uzbek is a Turkic language that is the official national language of Uzbekistan spoken by around 27 million people.

Vietnamese cảm ơn bạn (come-un-baan) — formal
   cảm ơn (come-un) — casual
Yoruba
   e dupe
Zulu

Say thank you in Zulu:

   ngiyabonga (Nn-i-ya bong-ga)