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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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
on Facebook says I sometimes say thanks
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
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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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