congratulates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of congratulate.
The coach congratulates each player after the final whistle.
He congratulates his rival with a firm handshake.
Note
Two quite different uses share this present-tense form. Aimed at someone else, it expresses pleasure in that person's good fortune, as when a coach praises a player. Turned back on the subject, it means counting oneself lucky: she congratulates herself on a narrow escape. In that reflexive use the pronoun must agree with the singular subject (himself, herself, itself), and the pleasure is the subject's own.
She congratulates herself on catching the last train home.
Looking at the storm outside, he quietly congratulates himself on staying in.
congratulates 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 → congratulates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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