I think it's supposed to be ありがとう ("arigatou"), which is is Japanese for "thank you" (the informal version). The characters are hiragana.
I have no idea why they left off the う at the end, though, except that it just turns the last o into a long o and many foreign speakers are insensitive to the difference between the two because they sound almost the same.
I don't use it. For Japanese, try Rikaichan (a Firefox translation plugin) which lets you look up unfamiliar kanji without leaving the website. You can also look words up on http://www.alc.co.jp/ but it might be hard to use unless you can read at least basic Japanese.
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> no clue what that says.
I think it's supposed to be ありがとう ("arigatou"), which is is Japanese for "thank you" (the informal version). The characters are hiragana.
I have no idea why they left off the う at the end, though, except that it just turns the last o into a long o and many foreign speakers are insensitive to the difference between the two because they sound almost the same.
It's pretty common to leave out the う in informal speech.
I also heart google translate.
http://translate.google.com/#ja|en|%E3%81%82%E3%82%8A%E3%81%...
I don't use it. For Japanese, try Rikaichan (a Firefox translation plugin) which lets you look up unfamiliar kanji without leaving the website. You can also look words up on http://www.alc.co.jp/ but it might be hard to use unless you can read at least basic Japanese.