From Middle English thankful, from Old English þancful, þancfull (“thoughtful, pleasing, agreeable, pleasant, thankful, grateful”), equivalent to thank + -ful. Compare Old High German undankfol (“unthankful, ungrateful”).
- IPA(key): /ˈθæŋkfəl/, (sometimes) /ðæŋkfəl/
- Hyphenation: thank‧ful
thankful (comparative more thankful, superlative most thankful)
- Showing appreciation or gratitude.
I'm thankful that you helped me out today. How can I ever repay you?
- (obsolete) Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.
showing thanks
- Albanian: mirënjohës (sq)
- Arabic: شَاكِر (šākir), شَكُور (šakūr)
- Armenian: շնորհակալ (hy) (šnorhakal)
- Azerbaijani: minnətdar (az)
- Belarusian: удзя́чны (udzjáčny), ўдзя́чны (ŭdzjáčny)
- Bulgarian: благода́рен (bg) (blagodáren), призна́телен (bg) (priznátelen)
- Burmese: ကျေးဇူးသိ (my) (kye:ju:si.)
- Catalan: agraït (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 感謝／感谢 (zh) (gǎnxiè), 感激 (zh) (gǎnjī)
- Czech: vděčný (cs)
- Danish: taknemmelig, taknemlig
- Dutch: dankbaar (nl)
- Esperanto: dankema (eo)
- Estonian: tänulik
- Faroese: takksamur
- Finnish: kiitollinen (fi)
- French: reconnaissant (fr)
- Georgian: მადლიერი (madlieri)
- German: dankbar (de)
- Greek: ευγνώμων (el) (evgnómon)
- Ancient: εὐχάριστος (eukháristos)
- Hebrew: אסיר תודה (he) m (asír todá)
- Hindi: कृतज्ञ (hi) (kŕtajña), एहसानमंद (hi) (ehsānmand), शुक्रगुज़ार (śukraguzār)
- Hungarian: hálás (hu)
- Ingrian: kiitolliin
- Italian: riconoscente (it), grato (it)
- Japanese: 感謝する (ja) (かんしゃする, kansha suru), 有難い (ja) (ありがたい, arigatai)
- Kazakh: игілікті (igılıktı)
- Khmer: អរគុណ (ʼɑɑ kun), កតវេទី (km) (kaʼtaʼveitii), ដឹងគុណ (dəng kun)
- Korean: 고맙다 (ko) (gomapda), 감사하다 (ko) (gamsahada)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: مەمنون (memnun)
- Northern Kurdish: spasdar (ku), minêkar (ku), memnûn (ku)
- Kyrgyz: ыраазы (ky) (ıraazı)
- Latin: grātus
- Latvian: pateicīgs
- Lithuanian: dėkingas
- Macedonian: благодарен (blagodaren)
- Malay: bersyukur
- Navajo: ahééh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: takknemlig (no)
- Nynorsk: takknemleg
- Ottoman Turkish: شاكر (şakir)
- Persian: سپاسگزار (fa) (sepâsgozâr), شاکر (fa) (šâker), ممنون (fa) (mamnun), متشکر (fa) (motšakker, motešakker)
- Plautdietsch: dankboa
- Polish: wdzięczny (pl)
- Portuguese: grato (pt), agradecido (pt)
- Romanian: recunoscător (ro), mulțumitor (ro)
- Romansch: savair grà (a) (to be grateful, thankful)
- Russian: благода́рный (ru) (blagodárnyj), призна́тельный (ru) (priznátelʹnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: taingeil
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: за́хва̄лан
- Roman: záhvālan (sh)
- Slovak: vďačný
- Slovene: hvaležen (sl)
- Spanish: agradecido (es)
- Swedish: tacksam (sv)
- Tajik: сипосгузор (tg) (siposguzor), муташаккир (tg) (mutašakkir), мамнун (tg) (mamnun)
- Thai: รู้คุณ (th) (rúu-kun-ná), กตัญญู (th) (gà-dtan-yuu)
- Turkish: minnettar (tr), müteşekkir (tr)
- Turkmen: minnetdar
- Ukrainian: вдя́чний (uk) (vdjáčnyj)
- Urdu: مشکور (maśkūr), شاکر (śākir)
- Uzbek: minnatdor (uz)
- Vietnamese: biết ơn (vi)
- Welsh: diolchgar (cy)
- Yakut: махталлаах (maqtallaaq)
- Yiddish: דאַנקבאַר (dankbar)
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