"Ευχαριστούμε πάρα πολύ!"

Translation: Thank you very much!

[dgcb903]

I wrote "We thank you very much" but it marked it wrong..
Isn't "ευχαριστούμε πάρα πολύ" implying you are more than one person in your group? I mean, if you are the only one in your group who speaks greek you could say "Ευχαριστούμε (We thank you) πάρα πολύ, instead of just "Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ."
So shouldn't it accept "We thank you very much"? Or is this not proper in English?

[Dimitra956826]

I do think it's grammatically okay to say " We thank you.", but this usage is a bit uncommon in English. The pronoun is always implied, one way or another. Some people think it's awkward, some people think it isn't. In any case, it's not wrong. ^.^

[GenevieveLaurin]

When I was I Greece a while back, I was taught "Ευχαριστούμε πολύ" only. Is that not a correct way to say "Thank you very much"?

[mizinamo]

That's also a correct way to say "Thank you very much".

English doesn't have "Thank you much" without "very"; Greek can have both -- and I've also heard it much more often without πάρα.

[annamere]

Occasionally you hear 'Thank you muchly' but of course this is completely colloquial!

[phuvtuo]

English does have "Thank you much." I am a native English speaker. I say "thank you much" frequently.

If you don't believe me, perhaps this corpus data will convince you. In fact, it clearly shows that "thank you much" used to be preferred over or at least used more than "thank you very much" in earlier centuries at least in writing.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=thank+you+much%2Cthank+you+very+much%2C&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cthank%20you%20much%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthank%20you%20very%20much%3B%2Cc0

Unbelievable that I am getting downvotes on this even thought I provided indisputable proof. And let me guess the downvotes are mainly coming from people who are not native speakers of English but who always seem to think they know English grammar better than the native speakers which is just such ridiculous arrogance.

[Serlp63]

I've tried with "Many thanks" and it wasn't accepted. How'd you say that in Greek?

[G.Georgopoulos]

"Πολλά ευχαριστώ", but it's not as common ;)

[Hilary666874]

I've always said ευχαριστω πολύ to mean "thank you very much" - have I been using bad grammar? (this is the first time I've seen the phrase written in Greek)

[mizinamo]

Ευχαριστώ πολύ! is fine for one person to say "Thank you very much!"

Literally, it is just "Thank you much!" but we don't say that in English -- we always say "very much", whereas in Greek you could have either πολύ "much; a lot" or πάρα πολύ "very much".

[Thomdwarf]

what the translation?
I don't see the refference to "you"

[mizinamo]

True. But this is a conventional phrase which you can't translate word for word.

English usually uses "Thank you!" with an object but no subject; Greek usually says Ευχαριστώ! with an implied subject (I thank) but no object.

[Hilary666874]

Thanks for clarifying that!

[TPoL2]

Why is "Thanks very much!" wrong?

"Thanks very much" is perfectly standard English, but it's just a polite noise and you shouldn't necessarily expect it to make sense in terms of general rules of modern English.

[G.Georgopoulos]

Both "Thanks a lot" and "Thanks so much" had been included in the possible translations. "Very much" has been added now.

[AlexanderR357441]

Hey what would πάρα mean in στο πάρα πέντε.
Or is it different to παρά ?

[G.Georgopoulos]

Yes, it's "παρά" and it's a phrase that means "In the nick of time" ;)

[mizinamo]

"to", as in "five minutes to ....".

I think it should be παρά, not πάρα.

[AlexanderR357441]

you're right, its pará, not pára
so it means in five minutes?

[mizinamo]

No; it literally means something like "at five minutes to...."

For example, στο εφτά παρά πέντε is "at five minutes to seven".

If you leave out the hour, you get the metaphorical meaning "just before the deadline, in the nick of time", from something like "with only five minutes to spare".

[Yoryos1]

Καλησπέρα. Γιατί αν χρησιμοποιήσουμε αντί για το «very» το «too» (όλα τα υπόλοιπα είναι σωστά) είναι λάθος;