congratulations

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, /-t͡ʃʊ-/, /-d͡ʒə-/, /-d͡ʒʊ-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˌɡɹat͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, /-t͡ʃʊ-/, /-tjə-/, /-tjʊ-/, /-d͡ʒə-/, /-d͡ʒʊ-/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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Interjection

congratulations

1. Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.

   Warm congratulations on your newborn boy!

   • 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:

     Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?

Synonyms

• felicitations. See Thesaurus:well done

Derived terms

• congraduations
• congradulations
• congrats
• congratudolences
• congratufuckinglations
• congratufuckulations
• grats
• gratters

Translations

expressing approbation

• Albanian: urime
• Arabic: مُبَارَك (mubārak), مَبْرُوك (ar) (mabrūk)
• Armenian: շնորհավոր (hy) (šnorhavor)
• Asturian: norabona f
• Azerbaijani: təbrik edirəm, təbriklər, mübarək olsun, gözün aydın olsun
• Bashkir: ҡотлайым (qotlayım)
• Basque: zorionak pl
• Belarusian: віншу́ю (be) (vinšúju), віта́ю (be) (vitáju)
• Bengali: মোবারক (bn) (mōbarok), মুবারক (bn) (mubarok), মারহাবা (bn) (marhaba)
• Bulgarian: поздравле́ния (bg) n pl (pozdravlénija)
• Catalan: felicitats (ca) f pl, enhorabona (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恭喜 (zh) (gōngxǐ), (usually duplicated) 恭喜恭喜 (gōngxǐ gōngxǐ)

• Cornish: keslowena f pl
• Corsican: cungratulazioni f pl, congratulazioni f pl
• Czech: gratuluji
• Danish: tillykke (da)
• Dutch: gefeliciteerd (nl), proficiat (nl), van harte
• Esperanto: gratulojn (eo) pl
• Faroese: til lukku
• Finnish: onnea (fi), onneksi olkoon (fi), onnittelut
• French: félicitations (fr) f pl
• Galician: parabén (gl) m, parabéns (gl) m pl
• Georgian: გილოცავთ (gilocavt), გილოცავ (gilocav), ყოჩაღ (ka) (q̇očaɣ)
• German: Glückwunsch (de) m, herzlichen Glückwunsch (de)
• Greek: συγχαρητήρια (el) n pl (syncharitíria)
• Gurani: پیرۊز بۊ (pîrüz bü), چەمت ڕۊشن (çem't rüşn) (singular), چەمتان ڕۊشن (çem'tan rüşn) (plural) (Hawrami)
• Hebrew: מַזָּל טוֹב (he) (mazál tóv), כָּל הַכָּבוֹד (he) (kól hakavód)
• Hindi: मुबारक (hi) (mubārak), बधाई (hi) (badhāī)
• Hungarian: gratulálok (hu), gratulálunk
• Icelandic: til hamingju, gott hjá þér
• Indonesian: selamat (id)
• Irish: comhghairdeas
• Italian: congratulazioni (it) f pl, complimenti (it) m pl
• Japanese: おめでとう (ja) (omedetō), おめでとうございます (ja) (omedetō gozaimasu)
• Kazakh: құттықтаймыз (qūttyqtaimyz)
• Korean: 축하해요 (ko) (chukhahaeyo), 축하합니다 (ko) (chukhahamnida)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پیرۆز بێت (pîroz bêt), چاو'ت ڕون (çaw't run) (singular), چاو'تان ڕون (çaw'tan run) (plural)

  Northern Kurdish: pîroz bi be, çehv ê te ron (singular), çehv ê we ron (plural)

  Southern Kurdish: pîrüz bu, çew't rün (singular), çew'tan rün (plural)

• Latvian: apsveicam
• Lithuanian: sveikiname
• Low German:

  German Low German: hartlichen Glückwunsch

• Luxembourgish: félicitatiounen
• Macanese: parabém
• Malay: tahniah, syabas
• Manx: moylley dhyt
• Marathi: अभिनंदन (mr) (abhinandan)
• Mongolian: баяр хүргэх (bajar xürgex)
• Navajo: ná bąą hózhǫ́
• Nepali: बधाई छ (badhāī cha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gratulerer, til lykke, tillykke

  Nynorsk: gratulerer

• Pannonian Rusyn: винчуєм (vinčujem)
• Persian: تبریک (fa) (tabrik)
• Polish: gratulacje (pl)
• Portuguese: parabéns (pt) m pl, congratulações (pt) f pl
• Romanian: felicitări f pl
• Romansh: Gratulaziuns
• Russian: поздравля́ю (ru) (pozdravljáju), мои́ поздравле́ния n pl (moí pozdravlénija), молоде́ц (ru) (molodéc)
• Sanskrit: अभिनन्दनम् (sa) (abhinandanam)
• Scottish Gaelic: meal do naidheachd (informal and singular), meal ur naidheachd (formal and/or plural), meal a naidheachd (3rd person singular)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: честитке

  Latin: čestitke (sh)

• Sicilian: cungratulazioni f pl, cungratulazzioni f pl
• Slovak: blahoželám, gratulujem
• Slovene: čestitke
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: wjele zboža

• Spanish: felicidades (es), enhorabuena (es)
• Swahili: hongera (sw)
• Swedish: grattis (sv), gratulerar (sv)
• Tagalog: balangaw (tl)
• Tamil: வாழ்த்துக்கள் (ta) (vāḻttukkaḷ)
• Thai: ยินดี​ด้วย (yindii dûai)​
• Turkish: tebrikler, tebrik ederim
• Ukrainian: віта́ю (vitáju)
• Urdu: مبارک (mubārak)
• Vietnamese: chúc mừng (vi), xin chúc mừng
• Volapük: benovip (vo)
• Walloon: proficiate (wa)
• Welsh: llongyfarchiadau pl
• Yiddish: מזל־טובֿ (mazl-tov)
• Zazaki: pîroz bo, çim ê to roşn (singular), çim ê şima roşn (plural)

See also

• congrats

Noun

congratulations

1. plural of congratulation

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

congratulations f

1. plural of congratulation