Word: Thank You
Posted by Theswede on juli 27th, 2009 | 0 comments
Thank you = Tack
A friend of mine from Turkey spent some time studying in Sweden. He told me that one thing he noticed was that Swedes say “Tack” ALL the time. In the grocery store, “Tack, tack”, in the clothes shop, “Tack, tack”. Tack, tack, tack, tack. Thank you very much. Thanks. Thank you, thank you. He thought this word was said a bit TOO often.
Thinking about it, I agree. We do say thank you a lot.
We say thank you when we give the person behind the counter the money, they say thank you when they get them. We say thank you when they give us the change, they say thank you when we receive it. Sometimes, but just sometimes, we say “here you are” instead. But that’s more rarely.
Quite extreme, isn’t it?