How to Say Thank You in German

There are many ways to express gratitude in German. This article will show you how to say that.

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The usual thank you

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Say “danke”. [1] X Danke ^{Research Source} is an interjection that means “thank you” or “thank you”.

Pronounce this word as DAHN-keh with stress on the first syllable.
Danke is taken from the noun dank , which means “thank you” or “gratitude”.

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Say “Ich danke Ihnen” or “Ich danke dir”. Both of these sentences mean “I thank you”.

Ich in German means “I”.
In this sentence, danke has the same root as the verb danken which means “thank you”. ^{[2] X Research Source}
When capitalized, Ihnen is a formal pronoun meaning “you”. Dir is a pronoun that means you in the regular form.
Pronounce the first sentence as eech DAHN-keh EE-nun .
The pronunciation of the following sentence is eech DAHN-keh DEAR .

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Use “bitte” to reply when accepting an invitation. If you answered danke , you mean “no thanks”. Instead, you would accept the invitation by saying “bitte”, an interjection that means “Yes/Yes”.

Pronounced bitte” is BIT-eh .

Emphatic thanks

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Thank someone very much by saying “danke schön” or “danke sehr”. Both phrases are used to emphasize thanks, but “danke sehr” is slightly stronger than “danke schön”.

The word “schön” walking alone means “beautiful” or “lovely” but is not translated in the sentence “danke schön”.
The word “sehr” means “many” or “a lot”. Thus, the phrase “danke sehr” is translated as “thank you very much” or “thank you very much”.
Pronounced danke schön is DAHN-keh shoon .
Pronounced danke sehr is DAHN-keh zaer .

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Say thank you a thousand times with the phrase “tausend dank!” ^{[3] X Research Source} This phrase exactly means “thank you a thousand times!”

Tausend in German means “one thousand”.
In this phrase, dank is the noun meaning “thank you”.
Pronounce this phrase as TAU-zent DAHNK.

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Use “danke vielmals” or “vielen dank” to emphasize thanks. Both of these phrases have the connotation of thank you very much.

Danke vielmals is an interjection that means “thank you very much” or “thank you very much”. Danke is taken from the standard interjection which means thank you and vielmals is a lot .
Vielen dank is also an interjection meaning thank you very much” or “thank you very much.” “Vielan” means “many” and “dank” is the noun “thank you” in German.
Pronounce the first phrase as DAHN-keh FEEL-malls .
Pronounce the following phrase as FEEL-en DAHNK .

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Express your gratitude by saying “Ich bin Ihnen sehr dankbar für.” ^{[4] X Research Source} This sentence means “I am very grateful to you for…”

Ich means I and Ihnen when capitalized is used to refer to you in a formal way. You can replace Ihnen with dir , which also means friend but less formal.
The word bin is similar to the English word to be.
The sentence sehr dankbar means “very grateful” or “thank you very much”.
The word für means “because”.
Fill in the last part of the sentence with a reason why you want to thank.
The basic pronunciation of this sentence is eek bin (EEH-nun / DEAR) DAHNK-bar fe-ur .

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Express your gratitude with the phrase “Mit tiefer Dankbarkeit”. This phrase means “with deep gratitude”.

The word mit means “with”.
Dankbarkeit means gratitude . When combined with tiefer , the sentence tiefer Dankbarkeit means deep gratitude .
This phrase is pronounced MITT TEEF-er DAHNK-bar-kite .

Reply when thanked

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Use “gern geschehen.” ^{[5] X Research Source} This phrase is a basic way of saying “it’s okay”, “it’s nothing”, “it’s my honor” or “it’s okay/don’t dare”.

Gerne means “very kindly”.
Geschehen means “to happen” or “to take place”.
This phrase, when translated correctly, doesn’t make any sense, but it does mean that you’re glad you did something for the person who said thank you.
This phrase is pronounced GHERN gah-SHane .

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Just say “gerne”. The usual way to say “nothing” is to use the word “gerne” which means “very kindly”.

Pronounce this word as GHERN .

Steps

The usual thank you

Emphatic thanks

Reply when thanked

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