Hanamaruhanamaru
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ありがとう

thank you

arigatou

JLPT
N3
Frequency
#583

In a sentence

ありがとう、thank youたすかりました助かりましたwas a big help

Thank you, that was a big help

How it works

Two beats with a pause between them: first the casual thanks ありがとう (thank you), then the reason. The verb 助かるたすかる (to be helped) shifts into polite past 助かりましたたすかりました (was a big help) — the 〜ました (polite past) ending stacks polite plus past, so it lands as a warm, finished “that really saved me.”