thanks to

English

Preposition

thanks to

1. Because of; normally used with a positive connotation, though it can be used sarcastically.

   Amy was given a scholarship thanks to her excellent grades.

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:

     Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

Translations

because of

• Afrikaans: danksy (af)
• Arabic: بِفَضْل (bifaḍl)

  Egyptian Arabic: بفضل (befaḍl)

• Bashkir: арҡаһында (arqahında)
• Belarusian: дзя́куючы (dzjákujučy)
• Catalan: gràcies a
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 由於／由于 (zh) (yóuyú)

• Czech: díky (cs)
• Danish: takket være
• Dutch: dankzij (nl)
• Esperanto: dank' al (eo)
• Finnish: ansiosta (fi) (genitive + ~), kiitos (fi) (~ + genitive)
• French: grâce à (fr)
• Galician: grazas a
• German: dank (de)
• Greek: χάρη σε (chári se)
• Hebrew: הודות ל- (hodot le-)
• Hungarian: köszönhetően (hu)
• Indonesian: karena (id), berkat (id)
• Interlingua: gratias a
• Italian: grazie a (it)
• Japanese: おかげで (ja) (okage de)
• Korean: 덕택에 (ko) (deoktaege)
• Polish: dzięki (pl)
• Portuguese: graças a (pt)
• Romanian: mulțumită (ro), datorită (ro)
• Russian: благодаря́ (ru) (blagodarjá)
• Spanish: gracias a, merced a
• Swedish: tack vare (sv)
• Ukrainian: завдяки́ (zavdjaký)
• Vietnamese: nhờ vào, nhờ (vi)