God bless you

English

Etymology

From Middle English God blesse you, God blisse you.

Interjection

God bless you!

1. Short for May God bless you; said as a short prayer, benediction, or valediction for the recipient.

   Synonym: God bless

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 185–186:

     “But she will be gained by some one else. And if that some one should be the very he whom, of all others, I could least bear—But I will not stay to rob myself of all your compassionate good-will, by shewing that where I have most injured I can least forgive. Good bye,—God bless you!” And with these words, he almost ran out of the room.

2. Said to somebody who has sneezed, as a rhetorical response; alternative form of bless you

Related terms

• God love someone

Translations

said as a short prayer for the recipient

• Arabic: حَيَّاك اَللّٰه (ḥayyāk allāh); بَارَكَ اَللّٰه فِيكَ (bāraka llāh fīka) (to a man), بَارَكَ اَللّٰه فِيكِ (bāraka llāh fīki) (to a woman)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 上帝保佑你 (shàngdì bǎoyòu nǐ)

• Czech: Bůh ti žehnej
• Danish: Gud velsigne dig
• Dutch: God zegene u, God zegene jou
• Esperanto: Dio benu vin
• Estonian: Jumal õnnistagu sind
• Finnish: Jumala siunatkoon sinua
• French: que Dieu te bénisse
• German: Gott segne dich, Gottes Segen
• Greek: ευλογημένος να 'σαι (evlogiménos na 'sai), να 'σαι καλά (na 'sai kalá)
• Guaraní: Ñandejára tanderovasa, Ñandejára tapenderovasa
• Hungarian: áldja meg az Isten (formal), áldjon meg az Isten (informal)
• Icelandic: Guð blessi þig
• Irish: bail ó Dhia ort, go mbeannaí Dia duit
• Italian: Dio ti benedica
• Japanese: 神様の祝福 (かみさまのしゅくふく, kamisama no shukufuku)
• Kapampangan: pakaluwiran na kang Diyos
• Latin: Deus te benedicat
• Macedonian: Го́спод да ве благо́слови pl (Góspod da ve blagóslovi)
• Malayalam: ദൈവം നിന്നെ അനുഗ്രഹിക്കട്ടെ (daivaṁ ninne anugrahikkaṭṭe)
• Navajo: nikʼeh hojidlį́į doo
• Ngazidja Comorian: Mngu nahudjaze kheri, Mngu nahuɓariki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Gud velsigne deg

• Polish: niech cię Bóg błogosławi, szczęść Boże (pl)
• Portuguese: Deus te abençoe (pt)
• Romanian: Dumnezeu să te binecuvânteze!
• Russian: да благослови́т тебя́ госпо́дь (da blagoslovít tebjá gospódʹ), да благослови́т тебя́ бог (da blagoslovít tebjá box) (change тебя́ -> вас for formal)
• Sanskrit: मङ्गलं भूयात् (maṅgalaṃ bhūyāt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бог те благословио

  Roman: Bog te blagoslovio

• Sicilian: Dìu t'a-binidica, s'a-binidica, salutamu
• Spanish: ¡que Dios te bendiga! (es)
• Swahili: Mungu akubariki
• Swedish: Gud välsigne dig
• Tagalog: pagpalain ka ng Diyos
• Tibetan: དཀོན་མཆོག་མཁྱེན (dkon mchog mkhyen)
• Turkish: Allah senden razı olsun, tanrı seni kutsasın
• Welsh: Duw a fenditho di

said to somebody who has sneezed

• Arabic: صِحَّة (ar) (ṣiḥḥa, literally “health”), يَرْحَمْكُم اللّٰه (yarḥamkum allāh, literally “Allah have mercy on you”), يَرْحَمْكُم (yarḥamkum, literally “mercy on you”)
• Armenian: առողջություն (hy) (aṙoġǰutʻyun)
• Catalan: Jesús! (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一百歲／一百岁 (yībǎi suì)

• Czech: na zdraví (cs)
• Danish: prosit (da)
• Dutch: (formal form) gezondheid! (nl), (informal form) proost! (nl)
• Esperanto: sanon (eo)
• Finnish: terveydeksi (fi)
• French: à vos souhaits (fr) (formal form), à tes souhaits (fr) (informal form)
• German: Gesundheit! (de)
• Greek: (diminutive of plural form of υγεία (ygeía, “health”)) γείτσες (el) f pl (geítses)
• Hebrew: לבריאות (he)
• Hungarian: egészségére (hu) (formal), egészségedre (hu) (informal)
• Icelandic: Guð blessi þig
• Irish: Dia linn
• Italian: salute! (it)
• Japanese: 徳万歳 (ja) (とこまんざい, to ko man zai, literally “A common Japanese expression generally used to wish a person blessings as a response to a sneeze.”)
• Macedonian: на здра́вје (na zdrávje)
• Ngazidja Comorian: rahmakAllah
• Norwegian: prosit
• Ottoman Turkish: تسمیت (tesmit)
• Polish: na zdrowie (pl)
• Portuguese: saúde (pt)
• Romanian: sănătate! (ro)
• Russian: будь здоро́в (ru) (budʹ zdoróv) (to a man), будь здоро́ва (budʹ zdoróva) (to a woman), бу́дьте здоро́вы (ru) (búdʹte zdoróvy) (formal singular or plural)
• Sicilian: Gisuzzu/gisuzzu, saluti
• Slovak: na zdravie
• Slovene: na zdravje
• Spanish: (Spain) ¡Jesús! (es), (Latin America) ¡salud! (es), (Northern Spain, specifically Asturias) ¡santinos!, gesúndeit
• Swedish: prosit (sv)
• Turkish: (informal, singular) çok yaşa (tr), (formal, plural) çok yaşayın
• Urdu: یرحمکم اللہ (yarhamakum allāh)
• Welsh: rhad arnat ti (informal), rhad arnoch chi (formal), bendith y Tad
• Yiddish: צו געזונט (tsu gezunt), אַסותא (asuse)