Thank you, please and you are welcome
Thanks is shukriya. The intensifier stands before it: bohat shukriya — thank you very much. One word carries the gratitude, and neither gender nor count bends it. For example: “شکریہ! — کوئی بات نہیں” — Thank you! — You are welcome. A rule from the Urdu course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
Thanks is shukriya. The intensifier stands before it: bohat shukriya — thank you very much. One word carries the gratitude, and neither gender nor count bends it.
Please is meharbani, literally "through mercy": it closes the request, standing at the end of the line. A request in the polite you gains the word dijiye — "give": mujhe paani dijiye, give me water.
To thanks one answers koi baat nahin — "there is nothing to talk of": the local you are welcome. Excusing yourself is maaf kijiye — it both apologizes before a question and hails a shopkeeper. Learn the request pair on day one: dobara, meharbani (again, please) and aahista, meharbani (slower, please).
By example
- شکریہ! — کوئی بات نہیںshukriya! — koy bat nahinThank you! — You are welcome
- معاف کیجیے، آہستہ مہربانیmaaf kidzhiye, ahista meharbaniExcuse me, slower please
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
How to say thank you in urdu?
To thanks one answers koi baat nahin — "there is nothing to talk of": the local you are welcome. Excusing yourself is maaf kijiye — it both apologizes before a question and hails a shopkeeper. Learn the request pair on day one: dobara, meharbani (again, please) and aahista, meharbani (slower…
Meharbani vs dijiye?
Please is meharbani, literally "through mercy": it closes the request, standing at the end of the line. A request in the polite you gains the word dijiye — "give": mujhe paani dijiye, give me water.
How to say you are welcome in urdu?
To thanks one answers koi baat nahin — "there is nothing to talk of": the local you are welcome. Excusing yourself is maaf kijiye — it both apologizes before a question and hails a shopkeeper. Learn the request pair on day one: dobara, meharbani (again, please) and aahista, meharbani (slower…
How to apologize in urdu?
To thanks one answers koi baat nahin — "there is nothing to talk of": the local you are welcome. Excusing yourself is maaf kijiye — it both apologizes before a question and hails a shopkeeper. Learn the request pair on day one: dobara, meharbani (again, please) and aahista, meharbani (slower…
What does it look like in a Urdu example sentence?
“شکریہ! — کوئی بات نہیں” (shukriya! — koy bat nahin) — Thank you! — You are welcome. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.