{"id":7245,"date":"2012-07-03T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7245"},"modified":"2012-07-03T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:08:26","slug":"obrigados-obrigadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7245","title":{"rendered":"Obrigados \/ Obrigadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to someone who wrote to me today, the words <em>obrigados\/obrigadas<\/em> are only used in Portuguese to mean &#8216;obligated&#8217;, and are not used to thank more than one person. However, according to Jo\u00e3o Rosa, who wrote the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/articles\/obrigado.htm\"><em>Obrigado &#8211; how to express your gratitude in Portuguese<\/em><\/a>, these words are used to mean &#8216;thank you&#8217; when talking to groups of people.<\/p>\n<p>Can anybody throw any light on this?<\/p>\n<p>In the Gaelic languages there are different versions of thank you for singular and plural:<\/p>\n<p>Irish: go raibh maith agat (sg), go raibh maith agaibh (pl)<br \/>\nManx: gura mie ayd (sg), gura mie eu (pl)<br \/>\nScottish Gaelic: tapadh leat (sg), tapadh leibh (pl)<\/p>\n<p>The plural forms in Manx and Scottish Gaelic are also used when thank one stranger.<\/p>\n<p>Zulu, Swahili and related languages have different forms of thank you for singular and plural, e.g. Ngiyabonga kakhulu (sg) Siyabonga (pl) &#8211; Zulu.<\/p>\n<p>Do other languages have different forms of thank you that change depending on who you&#8217;re thanking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to someone who wrote to me today, the words obrigados\/obrigadas are only used in Portuguese to mean &#8216;obligated&#8217;, and are not used to thank more than one person. However, according to Jo\u00e3o Rosa, who wrote the article Obrigado &#8211; how to express your gratitude in Portuguese, these words are used to mean &#8216;thank you&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,127,10,23,41,56,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","category-irish","category-language","category-manx","category-portuguese","category-scottish-gaelic","category-zulu-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}