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- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, /-t͡ʃʊ-/, /-d͡ʒə-/, /-d͡ʒʊ-/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˌɡɹat͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, /-t͡ʃʊ-/, /-tjə-/, /-tjʊ-/, /-d͡ʒə-/, /-d͡ʒʊ-/
congratulations
- Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.
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?
expressing approbation
- Arabic: مُبَارَك (mubārak), مَبْرُوك (ar) (mabrūk)
- Armenian: շնորհավոր (hy) (šnorhavor)
- Asturian: norabona f
- Azerbaijani: təbrik edirəm, təbriklər, mübarək olsun, gözün aydın olsun
- Basque: zorionak pl
- Belarusian: віншу́ю (vinšúju), віта́ю (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:
- 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)
- 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 (omedetō gozaimasu)
- Kazakh: құттықтаймыз (qūttyqtaimyz)
- Korean: 축하해요 (ko) (chukhahaeyo), 축하합니다 (ko) (chukhahamnida)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پیرۆز (pîroz)
- 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)
- Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵙⵙⵔⵖⵓⴷ (assrɣud)
- Navajo: ná bąą hózhǫ́
- Nepali: बधाई छ (badhāī cha)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gratulerer
- Nynorsk: gratulerer
- Persian: تبریک (fa) (tabrik)
- Polish: gratulacje (pl)
- Portuguese: parabéns (pt) m pl, congratulações (pt) f pl
- Romanian: felicitări f pl
- Romansch: 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)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: cungratulazioni f pl, cungratulazzioni f pl
- Slovak: blahoželám, gratulujem
- Slovene: čestitke
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: wjele zboža
- Spanish: felicidades (es) f pl, enhorabuena (es)
- Swahili: hongera (sw)
- Swedish: grattis (sv), gratulerar (sv)
- Tagalog: balangaw (tl)
- Tamil: வாழ்த்துக்கள் (ta) (vāḻttukkaḷ)
- Thai: ยินดีด้วย (yindii dûai)
- Turkish: tebrikler, tebrik ederim
- Ukrainian: віта́ю (vitáju)
- Urdu: مبارک (mubārak)
- Vietnamese: chúc mừng (vi), xin chúc mừng
- Walloon: proficiate (wa)
- Welsh: llongyfarchiadau pl
- Yiddish: מזל־טובֿ (mazl-tov)
congratulations
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