gracias
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish gracias (“thank you”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]gracias
- (US, colloquial) Thank you.
- 1993, Roddy Doyle, The Van, link:
- Muchos gracias, my friend. —The girls are in the kitchen, Bimbo told Vera.
- 2000, Linda Ladd, Midnight Fire, link:
- "Gracias, my friend. I owe you a great debt.
- 2010, Tina Rosenberg, Glenapp Castle: A Scottish Intrigue, page 154:
- “No, gracias, my friend. This will do fine.”
Alternative forms
[edit]- grassy arse, grassy ass (eye dialects)
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[edit]French
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[edit]Verb
[edit]gracias
- second-person singular past historic of gracier
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gracia < Latin grātia, as used in the phrase gratias agere (“to express thanks”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈɡɾa
θ jas/ [ˈɡɾa.θ jas] - IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈɡɾasjas/ [ˈɡɾa.sjas]
Audio (Spain): (file) Audio: (file) Audio: (file) Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -a
θ jas - Rhymes: -asjas
- Syllabification: gra‧cias
Interjection
[edit]gracias
Noun
[edit]gracias f pl (plural only)
- thanks
- el día de acción de gracias ― Thanksgiving day
- dar gracias ― to give thanks
- darle las gracias a alguien por algo
- to thank someone/somebody for something
- (literally, “to give thanks to somebody”)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]gracias
Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “gracias”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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θ jas - Rhymes:Spanish/a
θ jas/2 syllables - Rhymes:Spanish/asjas
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