congratulate

English

Alternative forms

• gratulate (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin congratulor, congratulatus, from con- +‎ gratulor, from gratus (“blessing”). By surface analysis, con- +‎ gratulate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈɡɹæt͡ʃ.ʊˌleɪt/, /-t͡ʃ.ə-/

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• (US, sometimes) IPA^(key): /kənˈɡɹæd͡ʒ.ʊˌleɪt/, /-d͡ʒ.ə-/

Verb

congratulate (third-person singular simple present congratulates, present participle congratulating, simple past and past participle congratulated)

1. To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for.

   Remind me to congratulate Dave and Lisa on their wedding.

   We must congratulate Dave and Lisa on getting married.

2. (reflexive) To consider oneself fortunate in some matter.

   I congratulated myself on the success of my plan.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• congratulable
• congratulant
• congratulating
• congratulation
• congratulations
• congratulative
• congratulator
• congratulatory
• self-congratulate

Translations

to express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for

• Arabic: هَنَّأَ (hannaʔa), يُهَنِّئُ (yuhanniʔu) (non-past)
• Armenian: շնորհավորել (hy) (šnorhavorel)
• Azerbaijani: təbrik etmək
• Belarusian: віншава́ць impf (vinšavácʹ), павіншава́ць pf (pavinšavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: поздравя́вам (bg) impf (pozdravjávam), честитя́ (bg) pf (čestitjá)
• Catalan: felicitar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 祝賀／祝贺 (zh) (zhùhè), 道喜 (zh) (dàoxǐ)

• Chukchi: анъякаԓек (anʺjakaḷek)
• Cornish: keslowenhe
• Czech: blahopřát (cs) impf, gratulovat impf
• Danish: gratulere
• Dutch: feliciteren (nl), gelukwensen (nl)
• Esperanto: gratuli (eo)
• Estonian: õnnitlema
• Finnish: onnitella (fi), toivottaa onnea
• French: féliciter (fr)
• Galician: folgarse (gl), congratular (gl)
• Georgian: მილოცვა (milocva)
• German: gratulieren (de), beglückwünschen (de)
• Greek: συγχαίρω (el) (synchaíro)
• Hebrew: ברך (he) (berákh), פִרְגֵּן (firgén) (colloquial)
• Hindi: बधाई देना (badhāī denā)
• Hungarian: gratulál (hu)
• Ido: gratular (io)
• Japanese: 祝う (ja) (いわう, iwau)
• Kazakh: құттықтау (qūttyqtau)
• Khmer: សរសើរ (km) (sɑɑ saə), សូមជូនពរ (soom cuun pɔɔ)
• Korean: 축하하다 (ko) (chukhahada)
• Kyrgyz: куттуктоо (ky) (kuttuktoo)
• Latin: grātulor, congrātulor
• Latvian: apsveikt
• Lithuanian: sveikinti, pasveikinti
• Macedonian: че́сти impf (čésti)
• Malay: tahniah
• Manx: cogherjaghey
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gratulere (no)

• Persian: تبریک گفتن (tabrik goftan)
• Polish: gratulować (pl) impf, pogratulować (pl) pf, winszować (pl) impf, powinszować pf (dated)
• Portuguese: parabenizar (pt), congratular (pt)
• Romanian: ferici (ro), ura (ro), felicita (ro)
• Russian: поздравля́ть (ru) impf (pozdravljátʹ), поздра́вить (ru) pf (pozdrávitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: честитати impf or pf

  Roman: čestitati (sh) impf or pf

• Slovak: blahoželať impf, gratulovať impf
• Slovene: čestitati impf
• Spanish: felicitar (es)
• Swedish: gratulera (sv), lyckönska, gratta (sv)
• Tagalog: balangawan, magbalangaw
• Tajik: табрик кардан (tabrik kardan), муборакбод гуфтан (muborakbod guftan), табрик гуфтан (tabrik guftan)
• Telugu: అబినందించు (abinandiñcu)
• Thai: ฉลอง (th) (chà-lŏng)
• Turkish: tebrik etmek (tr), kutlamak (tr)
• Turkmen: gutlamak
• Ukrainian: поздоровля́ти impf (pozdorovljáty), поздоро́вити pf (pozdoróvyty), віншува́ти impf (vinšuváty), повіншува́ти pf (povinšuváty)
• Uzbek: tabriklamoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: chúc mừng (vi)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

congratulate

1. inflection of congratulare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

congratulate f pl

1. feminine plural of congratulato

Latin

Participle

congrātulāte

1. vocative masculine singular of congrātulātus

Spanish

Verb

congratulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of congratular combined with te