Common words in various languages

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Language Thank you
Albanian fah-leh-meen-DEH-reet
Amharic a-ma-sag-ge-NAL-loo
Arabic shoe-KRA-an
Armenian shno-ra-ka-loo-TYOON; merci
Azerbaijani te-shek-kur ed’ram)
Bengali dhon-no-baad)
Bosnian HVAH-lah
Brazilian Portuguese oh-bree-GAH-doo
Bulgarian bla-go-da-RIA; 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
   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 GAM-sah-ham-NEE-da (kamsa hamnida)
Kurdish
   spas dikim 
Kyrgyz
   rakhmat (rah-maat)
Lao
   khawp jai ຂອບໃຈ
Latvian
   paldies (PUHL-dyehs)
Lingala
   melesi
Lithuanian


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

Thank you in Pashto:

   manana
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
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


   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)
Turkmen
   sag boluň
Ukrainian
   dyakuyu (DYAH-koo-yoo) Дякую
Urdu
   ab ka Shukriya آپ کا شکریہ
Uzbek
   rahmat (RAH-mat)
Vietnamese cảm ơn bạn (come-un-baan) — formal
   cảm ơn (come-un) — casual
Yoruba
   e dupe
Zulu
   ngiyabonga (Nn-i-ya bong-ga)