dankbar
grateful
Meaning of dankbar
voller Anerkennung für eine Hilfe oder ein Geschenk
感到感谢的

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Somewhat literary or old-fashioned: ‘grateful, appreciative’, often about a feeling of gratitude.
Means more ‘attached, indebted, connected’ — gratitude as a feeling of bond or obligation.
Directly means ‘to thank, to express thanks’; it is an action, not a feeling.
Literally ‘to feel gratitude’; somewhat literary or emotional, emphasizing the inner feeling.
Means ‘to feel obliged’; gratitude is mixed with a sense of duty or moral obligation.
Colloquial ‘to say thank you’; a very common and simple way to express gratitude.
Advanced: broader words
Means ‘decent, proper, respectable’; only indirectly related to gratitude through polite, appropriate behavior.
Means ‘binding, committed, courteous and businesslike’; with gratitude it points more to polite, formal manners than the feeling itself.
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What does dankbar mean?
feeling thankful
How do you pronounce dankbar?
dankbar is pronounced [ˈdaŋkbaːɐ̯].
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