Common words in various languages

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Afrikaans DAHN-kie
Albanian fah-leh-meen-DEH-reet
Amharic a-ma-sag-ge-NAL-loo
Arabic shoe-KRA-an
Armenian shno-ra-ka-loo-TYOON (merci) MEHR-see
Azerbaijani te-shek-kur ed’ram)
Bengali dhon-no-baad)
Bosnian HVAH-lah
Brazilian Portuguese oh-bree-GAH-doo
Bulgarian bla-go-da-RIA MEHR-see (merci)
Burmese Kyeizu tin ba de
Chinese Cantonese daw-DYEH
Chinese Mandarin shieh-shieh
Croatian HVAH-lah)
Czech deh-KOO-yih
Danish TAHG
Dutch dahnk oo dahnk-uh-wel
Estonian
   tänan (TA-nahn)
   aitäh  — more common
Farsi / Persian

How to say thank you in Persian:

   xeyli mamnūnam خیلی ممنون
   merci مرسی
Finnish
   kiitos (key-toss)

Finns usually greet each other in an informal way, so you can use these greetings in 99% of all situations.

Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language spoken only in Finland as the official language and by ethnic Finns elsewhere in Scandinavia. French

How to say thank you in French:

   merci (MEHR-see)
Georgian gmahd-lohbt) — formal
   გმადლობ (gmahd-lohb) — informal
German danke (dahn-kah)
Greek efharisto (ef-hah-rees-TOH)
Gujarati
   dhanyavaad (Dhan-ya-bad) ધન્યવાદ
   aabhar આભાર
Haitian Creole mesi/anpil (meh-SEE/on-PEEL)
Hausa
   na gode
Hebrew
   toda (toh-dah) .תודה
Hindi
   sukria (shoo-kree-a)
   dhanyavād (Dhan-ya-bad)
Hungarian

How to say thank you in Hungarian:

   köszönöm (KØ-sø-nøm)
Indonesian Bahasa
   terima kasih (Tur-EE-mah KAH-see)
Italian

Thank you in Italian:

   grazie (GRAHTS-yeh)
Japanese

Say thank you in Japanese:

   arigato (ah-ree-GAH-toh)
Kazakh
   raqmet (rakh-met) көп рақмет
Korean

Thank you in Korean:

   kamsa hamnida (GAM-sah-ham-NEE-da)
Kurdish
   spas dikim 

Kurdish is spoken by about 30 million Kurds in western Asia including parts of Kurdistan, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and Syria. It is one of the Indo-Iranian languages, ranks as the third largest Iranian language, after Persian and Pashto.

Kyrgyz
   rakhmat (rah-maat)

Kyrgyz is a member of the Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family spoken by over 4 million speakers mainly in Kyrgyzstan, and also in China, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Turkey.

Lao
   khawp jai ຂອບໃຈ
Latvian
   paldies (PUHL-dyehs)
Lingala
   melesi

Lingala is a Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a large part of the Republic of the Congo by over 70 million people.

Lithuanian

Thank you in Lithuanian:

   ačiū (AH-choo)
Luganda
   webale
Macedonian
   blagodaram (blah-GOH-dah-rahm) Благодарам
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 83.1 million Marathi people of Maharashtra, India. It is the official language and co-official language in the Maharashtra and Goa states of Western India, respectively, and is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.

Marshallese

   kom̧m̧ool — singular
   kwe emmal — plural

Marshallese, also known as Ebon, is a Micronesian language spoken in the Marshall Islands by about 44,000 people. It is an official language of the Marshall Islands, along with English, and is used as the language of instruction in most primary schools.

Mongolian

How to say thank you in Mongolian:

   bayarlalaa Баярлалаа
Nepali
   dhanyavād (Dhan-ya-bad) ढन्यबाद्
Norwegian

Say thank you in Norwegian:

   takk (tahk)
Pashto

Thank you in Pashto:

   manana مننه

Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European family spoken in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. It is an official language of Afghanistan along with Dari.

Polish

Say thank you in Polish:

   dziekuje (dsyen-koo-yeh)
Portuguese
   obrigado (oh-bree-GAH-doo) as a male
   obrigada (oh-bree-GAH-dah) as a female
Punjabi
   tuhādā dhanavāda (Tu-haa-da Dhan-ya-bad)
Romanian

Say thank you in Romanian:

   mulţumesc (mool-tzoo-MESK)
   merci (MEHR-see)
Serbian
   hvala (HVAH-lah) xвала
Slovak
   Ďakujem (JAH-koo-yehm)
Slovenian
   hvala (HVAA-lah)
Somali
   mahadsanid (maHAD SaNid)
Spanish
   gracias (GRAH-syahs)
Sundanese
   hatur nuhun

Sundanese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 39 million people mainly in western Java in Indonesia. There are also speakers in Banten, Jakarta, parts of western Central Java and southern Lampung. It is the third most-spoken language in Indonesia.

Swahili
   asante (ah-sahn-teh)
Swedish tack (tahkk)
Tagalog Filipino
   salamat po (sa-LAH-maht poh) – formal
   Salamat (sa-LAH-maht) – informal
Tajik

Thank you in Tajik:

   sipos сипос
Tamil nan-DREE
Tatar
   räxmät (rah-mat) Рәхмәт
Telugu dhan-ya-BAD-da-loo
Thai

Thank you in Thai:

   khop khun khaa (cap-coohn KHAA) as a female
   khob khun krap (cap-coohn KRAP) as a male
Tibetan
   thu-je-che ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་།
Turkish

Thank you in Turkish:

   tesekkür ederim (teh-sheh-kur eh-deh-rim)

Turkish is a Turkic language believed to be of the Altaic language family spoken mainly in Turkey, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus and other countries of the former Ottoman Empire by about 88 million people.

Turkmen
   sag boluň
Ukrainian

Thank you in Ukrainian is:

   dyakuyu (DYAH-koo-yoo) Дякую

Ukrainian is an Eastern Slavic language spoken mainly in Ukraine by about 51 million people.

Urdu
   ab ka Shukriya آپ کا شکریہ
Uzbek
   rahmat (RAH-mat)

Uzbek is a Turkic language that is the official national language of Uzbekistan spoken by around 27 million people.

Vietnamese cảm ơn bạn (come-un-baan) — formal
   cảm ơn (come-un) — casual
Yoruba
   e dupe
Zulu

Say thank you in Zulu:

   ngiyabonga (Nn-i-ya bong-ga)