how to pronounce thankful

/ˈθæŋkfəl/

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thankful is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of thankful in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… here we are so thankful for your work …”

meaning of thankful

Thankful means feeling grateful for something that has been received.

thankful frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word thankful occurs in english on average 41.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics thankful can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that thankful can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;