Monday 16 May 2011

How to Say 'Thanks' Around The World

Around the world, many language we can hear. The intonation and pronoun of the word usually different follow the language used at the country. This show the unique of word because the word that have a different intonation and pronoun have a same meaning. Below are some of example of word 'Thank You' used around the world.


  1. Afrikaans - Dankie 
  2. Arabic - Sukran 
  3. Armenian - shur-nur-ah-gah-lem 
  4. Australian - Thoinks, Moite! 
  5. Bengali - Dhannyabad 
  6. Bulgarian - Blagodaria 
  7. Bosnia - Hvala 
  8. Chinese- Xie_Xie
  9. Croatia - Hvala 
  10. Czech - Djenkuie
  11. Dutch - dank
  12. Estonia - Aitåh 
  13. Fijian - Vinaka 
  14. Finnish - kiitos 
  15. French - merci
  16. German - Danke
  17. Greek - Efharisto
  18. Guinea - Abarka 
  19. Hawaiian - Mahalo 
  20. Hebrew - Toda
  21. Hindi - Dhan-ya-vaad 
  22. Hungarian - Köszönöm
  23. Indonesian - Terima kasih
  24. Italian - Grazie
  25. Japanese - Arigato
  26. Korean - Kamsa hamaida
  27. Latvian - Paldis 
  28. Lithuanian - Achu 
  29. Macedonia - Hvala 
  30. Malaysian - Terima Kasih
  31. Mali - Abarka 
  32. New Zealand - Maori 
  33. Norwegian - Takk
  34. Oman - Shakkran
  35. Paraguay - Aguije
  36. Persian/Farsi - Mam'noon
  37. Philippines - Salamat 
  38. Qatar - Shakkran 
  39. Samoan - Fa'afetai
  40. Senegal - Abarka 
  41. South Africa - Dankie 
  42. Spanish - Gracias
  43. Sundanese - Nuhun 
  44. Sunda - Hatur Nuhun 
  45. Swahili - Ahsante
  46. Swedish - Tack
  47. Tahitian - Maururu
  48. Thai - Khap kun kop
  49. Tibetan - Thuk Ji Chhe 
  50. Turkish - Tesekkurler
  51. Ukranian - Dyakuyu 
  52. Vietnamese - Kam ouen 
  53. Yemen - Shakkran 
  54. Yoruba - Modupe 
  55. Yugoslavia - Hvala 
  56. Zulu - Ngiyabonga
 Now try and used it when we go travel to other country.



  Credit to : http://loska.com/columns/thanks.html
 
 
 
 
 

4 comments:

  1. You are welcome dalam bahasa melayu : SAMA-SAMA

    Tau x ni? hehehe ^_~

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  2. tahu la jgk....hehe....

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  3. in hindi dhan ya vaad or shukriya.... for sharing

    http://autom-atic.blogspot.com/

    thanks

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