Phrase guide

death certificate

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A document issued by a medical practitioner, or by a registrar, certifying the date, location and cause of a person's death as later entered in an official register of deaths.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: doodsertifikaat — document
  • Azerbaijani: ölüm şəhadətnaməsi — document
  • Azerbaijani: ölüm haqqında şəhadətnamə — document
  • Azerbaijani: ölüm kağızı — document
  • Chinese Cantonese: 死亡證 /死亡证 — document
  • Chinese Cantonese: 死亡證明書 /死亡证明书 (sei2 mong4 zing3 ming4 syu1) — document
  • Chinese Mandarin: 死亡證明書 /死亡证明书 (sǐwáng zhèngmíngshū) — document
  • Chinese Mandarin: 死亡證書 /死亡证书 (sǐwáng zhèngshū) — document
  • Czech: úmrtní list — document
  • Danish: dødsattest — document
  • Dutch: overlijdensakte — document
  • Dutch: doodceel — document
  • Finnish: kuolintodistus — document
  • French: acte de décès — document
  • German: Totenschein — document
  • German: Todesbescheinigung — document
  • German: Sterbeurkunde — document
  • Hungarian: halotti bizonyítvány — document
  • Indonesian: surat kematian — document
  • Indonesian: akta kematian — document
  • Japanese: 死亡証明書 (shibō shōmeisho) — document
  • Macedonian: посмр́тница (posmŕtnica) — document
  • Norwegian Bokmål: dødsattest — document
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: dødsattest — document
  • Polish: akt zgonu — document
  • Portuguese: atestado de óbito — document
  • Portuguese: certidão de óbito — document
  • Russian: свиде́тельство о сме́рти (svidételʹstvo o smérti) — document
  • Serbo-Croatian: потврда о смрти — document
  • Serbo-Croatian: potvrda o smrti — document
  • Spanish: certificado de defunción — document
  • Swedish: dödsattest — document
  • Swedish: dödsbevis — document
  • Thai: มรณบัตร (mɔɔ-rá-ná-bàt) — document
  • Ukrainian: свідо́цтво про смерть (svidóctvo pro smertʹ) — document
  • Vietnamese: giấy báo tử — document