congratulated
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of congratulate.
The coach congratulated each player as they came off the field.
He was congratulated by colleagues from across the company after his promotion.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. Standing alone it is the finite past (the coach congratulated them); after have or be it is the participle, which also builds the passive (she was congratulated). Turned back on its subject, the verb shifts meaning: someone who congratulated themselves was not offering praise but counting themselves fortunate. That reflexive use carries over to both forms.
congratulated is a form of congratulate
congratulate, verb: To express your shared pleasure or joy to someone over a happy event or achievement of theirs. Full entry
- Forms
- congratulatecongratulates he/she/itcongratulating -ing formcongratulated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- congratulate → congratulated: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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