The grammar in the English language is really simple if we compare it with Spanish, if you put effort and desire it will be even easier, the more words we learn to write, the more they become familiar to us. Continue reading how to write thank you in English.
Among the most important words to learn in this language we have “thank you”, it really is a very useful word that also shows good education and manners.
It is a word that will be very useful in conversations, also when writing emails or letters where we want to thank the recipient.
Originally Thank you had the meaning of “I will remember what you have done for me”, in other words, its meaning went far beyond a simple expression of gratitude.
Thank you comes to be the abbreviation of the words I thank you, if we translate this literally into Spanish it would have the meaning of I thank you, but in its colloquial form it is just thank you.
Let’s see in detail what are the steps to follow to write thank you correctly in English.
Step one
Before writing the word thank you in English, it is important that you take into account if you want to write it for someone specific or if, on the contrary, you want to give it in general, it is important that you take this into account so that you know exactly how you should write the words. words or the word
Step two
If what you want is to write the word thanks to someone in particular, you will need a word that is composed, where you must first write Thank and then you. Thank you should use it to proceed to thank a specific person to whom you are addressing in a conversation.
Step three
If, on the other hand, you want to thank in a more general way, for example to a massive audience, it will suffice to write a single word, which is Thank, in this way you can express your gratitude in a collective way to a larger audience. general, because there is no specific person. This way of saying thank you is the most used and common in countries where they speak English such as England and the United States.
Step four
If you are going to start a sentence with this or these words, you must write the T in capital letter, likewise if you put it when you end a letter.
Tips
- Find other words in the English language that contain similar semantics to the word thank you.
- Write this word several times, so that you learn it and do it correctly and with good spelling.
- Always remember to put the h in the word, omitting it is a mistake that many people make when they are learning this language.
- The pronunciation of thank you is thangk yuh.
- The pronunciation of thanks is thangks.
- If you want to make more emphasis, that is to say thank you very much, you should write Thank you very much.
- Likewise, it is also likely that what we want to write is No, thanks, in this case it should be written as follows: No, Thank you.
- In case you say No thank you, although it is very similar to the above, you will really be saying No thanks to you.
Thank you in other languages
In an informative way, we will show you how to write thank you in other languages, as it is one of the most important words to learn.
- German: dank
- Belarusian: дзякуй
- Burmese: ကြေးဇူးတငျစကား
- Bulgarian: blagodary
- Catalan: thank you
- Czech: diky
- Chinese: 謝謝
- Korean: 감사
- Slovak: vďaka
- Slovenian: hvala
- Finnish: kiitos
- French: thank you
- Galician: thank you
- Greek: ευχαριστίες
- Hindi: धन्यवाद
- Dutch: bedankt
- Hungarian: köszönöm
- Indonesian: terima kasih
- Irish: go raibh maith agat
- Icelandic: takk
- Italian: grace
- Japanese: 感謝
- Latin: thank you ago
- Latvian: pateicība
- Lithuanian: dėkoju
- Luxembourgish: thank you
- Macedonian: blagodarenie
- Maltese: grazzi
- Mongolian: bayarlaa
- Norwegian: takk
- Polish: dzięki
- Portuguese: obregado
- Romanian: mulțumesc
- Russian: spasibo
- Swedish: tack
- Thai: ขอบคุณ
- Tamil: நன்றி
- Turkish: teşekkürler
- Ukrainian: спасибі