How to Say Thank You in English Basic English Phrases

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you thank you people is going to be our

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review some words and expressions you

probably already know then I’m going to

talk about some more formal expressions

you can use to say thank you for example

in like a business situation or just

more polite situations finally I’m going

to talk about some more casual

expressions or things that are kind of

related to ways to say thank you

that you can use with your friends and

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thank you I think okay yes for some of

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like for business English or some like a

new casual expression perhaps okay let’s

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review in case people come late so let’s

take a look at some expressions you

probably already know the first one

thank you of course thank you

the most basic way to express your

appreciation thank you you can use this

in polite situations in casual

situations if you’re ever not sure how

to thank someone just use thank you it’s

always correct it’s always good thank

you to express your appreciation the

next one is thanks with this s at the

end here Thanks someone in the chat

wrote think make sure to include this s

Thanks Thanks

so it’s a little more casual than just

thank you so thanks Thanks you can use

this for like small things small like

small ways to express your appreciation

for something alright the next one is a

little bit longer this one is thank you

so much thank you so much and if you

like you can extend you can make this

Oh sound longer thank you so much to

really express your appreciation like to

emphasize how much you appreciate

something so I would use this expression

in a casual situation so with a friend

or perhaps a colleague so someone I’m a

little close to but when they helped me

a lot they did something that really

helped me I might say thank you so much

thank you so much to show my

appreciation but so is a little bit more

casual if you want to make this a little

bit more polite a little more formal you

can change this so to vary thank you

very much thank you very much so again

this is an expression I would use if

someone helps me a lot but it’s a more

formal situation so maybe they’re above

me like my boss or a manager or a client

for example I want to express my

appreciation to them I might say thank

you very much instead of thank you so

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is uh thank you for something something

I n G thank you for something something

ing this is a great way to say thank you

like for a specific purpose so this for

comes before the verb form a verb in the

ing form so for example with like a

party thank you for coming to the party

so just fill in just use a verb here in

ing form to express appreciation to say

thank you for a specific thing

so like thank you for coming or thank

you for inviting me thank you for

helping me so use this I

gee at the end of this expression thank

you for coming

you can finish there like I just use

this expression thank you for helping

thank you for helping me is another

great example so you can use this to

show like a specific thing you feel

appreciation for thank you for block I

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so if you are just joining us today’s

topic is how to say thank you we’re

talking about expressions for saying

thank you if you missed the beginning of

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started with a quick review of some

expressions I think many of you already

know now I want to go to part two this

part here these expressions in the

middle here I planned these as more like

like like I said kind of business or

more formal ways to show your

appreciation so let’s begin let’s begin

with this one many thanks for many

thanks for this is very similar to thank

you for a thing so here we see the same

four included here thank you

so the same four is here so that shows

us we’re giving like a specific reason

for our thank you many thanks for

something so you need to include the

thing that the other person did for you

what did they do to help you like why do

you feel thankful for that so for

example many thanks for the email many

thanks for the files many thanks for

your help last week this is a great way

to begin a business email I begin a lot

wealth some of my emails like to

colleagues or to clients with the

expression many thanks for the email or

many thanks for the information I use

this expression in my emails a lot I

think it’s a good way to begin an email

okay good let’s continue on to the next

one the next expression is I greatly

appreciate I greatly appreciate this is

like the levelled up version of many

thanks for you can move it up like to an

even higher level with I greatly

appreciate something I greatly

appreciate so we might use I greatly

appreciate the thing you did the

information or I greatly appreciate the

opportunity I greatly appreciate the

meeting so this is something you would

use for a person who’s probably above

you this is maybe not something you use

for someone at the same level as you so

not like a co-worker or not a friend but

someone who is higher rank than you I

greatly appreciate the interview for

example so you really want to show

appreciation greatly appreciate so this

is quite a formal expression

it sounds posh this one does it okay

good um other people say Oh sounds

pretty fancy I suppose it is a little

bit fancy someone says oh no the correct

ways thank you so much or thanks yes

that is correct

okay capped yes this is live okay the

next one I want to go to is this one we

express our sincere appreciation for

something we express our sincere

appreciation for something okay a couple

points here one I used weed so this is

the first one I’m sorry this is the

first one in today’s lesson I’ve used we

with so I chose we here because

sometimes you need to write a an email

or you need to send a message from your

organization not just you not just I

mean me but we our organization like

Mike

company or my team we Express so this is

like a more formal way of saying we say

we share we express our sincere so

sincere this is like when you finish a

letter and you end with sincerely right

like sincerely truly really we express

our sincere appreciation for something

this is like a very formal way of saying

thank you so much for something so if

you want to make a really formal like

appreciation message from your team or

from your company you can use something

like this we express our sincere

appreciation for more time so again you

need to finish this with the thing if

you appreciated what did they do to help

you

so we express our sincere appreciation

for your cooperation or for your

business for example okay so try that

one for more very formal situations okay

um I don’t see any questions yet okay

let’s continue on to the next two maybe

let’s start here actually thank you

kindly for thank you kindly for this is

one I personally this is one I

personally like to use thank you kindly

for something so we see the same for

followed by some specific thing or

thankful for thank you kindly for your

help thank you kindly for the email this

is polite actually but you can use this

with colleagues and co-workers I use

this at the end of my emails actually so

when I make a request to a colleague or

make a request to someone in my company

and I know they’re going to help me with

it I can say thank you for your help

thank you for your support for example

just to be polite to show my

appreciation to my colleague or my

coworker

thank you for or sorry thank you kindly

kindly for

I have also seen people and emails with

just kindly they finish it with kindly

for people that they are closer to but

want to express their appreciation for

kindly but I like to use thank you

kindly for so this is how I start a lot

of emails and this is how I finish a lot

of emails so that’s just the style that

I like okay good let’s go to the last

one for this section

the next one is a little bit sensitive

maybe let’s read it first

this says thank you for your

understanding

thank you for your understanding

this is may be optional sometimes thank

you for understanding this is something

that’s used when there’s an

inconvenience so a great example of this

is a construction site a construction

site a construction site means a place

where a team of people are making a

building or like they’re destroying a

building construction they are

constructing something site means place

a construction site a place where a

building is being made you will see this

expression used on signs in those areas

thank you for your understanding like

it’s noisy or it’s gonna be dirty in

this area for the next month

for example thank you for your

understanding so this your understanding

means like we know we’re causing trouble

we appreciate that you allow us to do

this is kind of the idea thank you for

your understanding

thank you for understanding our

situation and like working together with

us so you can use this if there’s a

small inconvenience caused by you or

caused by your company it’s like for

example a delay if a package you send is

taking a long time to arrive or maybe if

a file or something you’re working on is

taking a little more time than you

thought you can say

thank you for your understanding like

I’ll have it to you by tomorrow so it’s

like a formal not quite apology but just

like an appreciation for cooperation

thank you for your understanding

won’t be sorry if I said your name wrong

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in advance on emails is it okay

grammatically yes so his this person

asks about this expression thanks in

advance thanks in advance this it is a

common expression yes but I am careful

about this because if you if you send

this to a person for example and you

make a request from that person like and

it’s a big request or if it’s something

like that’s difficult for them to do

they’re really busy whatever thanks in

advance sounds like you have some

expectation like you just it’s not a

request in other words you expect that

thing is going to be done and you’re not

maybe always thinking so much about the

person receiving your message

so sometimes thanks in advance can be a

little bit like sensitive if it’s for a

small thing like that you know is going

to happen like for example you’re

planning an event and you’re working

together with other people in the event

then you might say thanks in advance for

something you know they’re going to do

that might be okay but if you make a

request and you say thanks in advance it

might be a little too strong the other

person might feel a little bit offended

okay I hope that helps you I did say her

name right woohoo thank you I never know

nobody ever replies the bed okay oh

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YouTube Mimi says the last one maybe

could be used as pardon me ah pardon me

I haven’t talked about pardon me you

mean this one thank you for your

understanding

pardon me would be used when

like first an apology really but also

used similar to excuse me and also

pardon me sounds quite formal we don’t

really use pardon me in American English

actually so it’s a little bit different

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today’s lesson I chose some very casual

expressions you can use to show your

appreciation for friends and for family

members yay so let’s move along to that

part okay let’s go to this one I really

appreciate it I really appreciate it

so this is for something a friend or

family member has done for you you can

use this at work as well I really

appreciate it

also you will hear native speakers drop

this part I and really sometimes you’ll

just hear people say appreciate it like

even this a sound kind of disappears

appreciate it it sounds super casual and

very nice very friendly so this is

something you can use with your friends

yes appreciate does sound kind of formal

sounds a little more polite but we can

kind of make it sound more casual by

changing the pronunciation slightly

appreciate it appreciate it I appreciate

it I appreciate it or I really

appreciate it is a nice thing to do okay

on to the next one the next two are very

casual expression and they’re not

directly like a like a way of saying

thank you but they’re they express your

appreciation for the other person so

this first one very casual this

expression is you rock you rock this is

true this is an expression like my dad

used this with my brother and I like if

someone helps you a lot and they help

you they help you make something they

help you do something and it’s perfect

it’s just what you need you can say you

rock you rock so it’s like it’s like

about that person’s personality you

think that they are a really great

person and they did this awesome thing

for you you can say you

rock you rock same thing here you are

awesome you are awesome

so again someone helps you a lot and

they do something perfectly so like our

team for example here like they always

make everything just right or like they

make adjustments last minute so we can

say like you guys are awesome here I

thought you are just now I used you guys

are awesome you guys are awesome

so if you want to use this in a group of

people you guys are awesome

yes we used guys I used guys here just

now but guys can mean men and women we

use this for a group of people actually

okay so the next expression I want to go

on to is this one nice work nice work so

again this is kind of a an indirect way

to show your appreciation this is

something like again maybe a co-worker

or colleague helps you with something

it’s really nicely done you can say nice

work this word work I used work here but

this work doesn’t mean only your job it

can mean something you did really well

so for example someone cooks dinner and

it’s delicious you can say nice work

it’s like someone did put work into that

someone worked to make that it’s not

their job but they really made an effort

to do something you can say nice work

nice work or good work is okay too I

like nice work personally okay let’s

continue on we only have a couple

minutes ah all right I want to spend a

little time on the next expression this

expression is yeah oh good can we zoom

in thank you thank you thank you uh you

saved me from you saved me from okay so

I included this because sometimes we

express our appreciation I’m sorry

express our appreciation this way so you

saved me from some

saved here means rescued like you really

helped me like escape from something bad

you saved me from something negative so

right here you saved me from something

negative a negative thing

so why what does white let’s look at an

example you saved me from paperwork or

you saved me from overtime so you can

use this when someone does something

that helps you avoid a bad thing so if

you have like a lot of work and your

coworker volunteers to help you and you

finish everything quickly you can say

thank you so much you saved me from

overtime so you helped me avoid a bad

thing so this I just said thank you so

much I kind of paired this expression

with thank you so much so you can kind

of pair them together like that so you

saved me from is good just remember to

use you saved me from with some kind of

negative situation that you avoided

thanks to this person’s help

yes you saved me from overtime is a nice

one okay you saved me from ruin oh

that’s an epic example dang okay alright

let’s continue on to the last one for

today a time is almost out wow that’s

great

the last one is extremely casual I

included one that is fun to use in texts

and when you’re speaking so if you

joined our text related livestream you

know this word this omg omg means oh my

god or oh my gosh OMG oh my god thank

you so I extended I made this you sound

really long because sometimes when we

are texting it’s hard to communicate

like a strong feeling it’s hard to

communicate emphasis

if it’s just as simple thank you maybe

you can’t communicate like how excited

or how grateful you are so people will

use something like this in text oh my

god thank you so it looks a little funny

but this kind of shows how excited we

are or how grateful we are by typing

kind of these long vowel sounds so you

might see this this is on the thumbnail

I think for today is live actually so oh

my god thank you so much so you might

also hear people use it like I just did

it oh my god thank you so pairing these

things together like surprise with oh my

god and then thank you to really

emphasize how grateful you are so listen

for the ways that people use thank you

with some of these expressions and of

course if you need to use business

English or more formal English I would

recommend these especially for your

emails I think these are great for

emails so that is everything for today I

hope that you found something new I know

it’s probably review some review

information for a lot of you but I think

it’s good to practice every once in a

while

Saamy on Facebook says what about Thank

You indeed Thank You indeed hey don’t

use Thank You indeed I don’t think

that’s such a common expression thank

you very much it’s probably much better

mmm I would recommend that okay someone

wrote oh my god thank you so much Alisa

nice one okay uh we’ll finish up there

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