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To offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Examples
- The president offered his condolences to the mother of the dead soldier.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
弔唁 /吊唁
(diàoyàn)
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Czech:
upřímnou soustrast
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Dutch:
condoleren
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Finnish:
otan osaa
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Finnish:
esittää osanottonsa
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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French:
présenter ses condoléances
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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German:
sein Beileid aussprechen
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Hungarian:
részvétét kifejezi
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Icelandic:
votta samúð sína
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Indonesian:
berbelasungkawa
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Irish:
comhbhrón a dhéanamh le
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Japanese:
哀悼の意を表する
(aitō no i o hyō suru)
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Korean:
애도의 뜻을 표하다
(aedo-ui tteus-eul pyohada)
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Norwegian Bokmål:
kondolerer
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
kondolerar
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Russian:
выража́ть соболе́знования
(vyražátʹ soboléznovanija)
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Russian:
вы́разить соболе́знования
(výrazitʹ soboléznovanija)
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Serbo-Croatian:
dati sućut
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Swedish:
kondolera
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Vietnamese:
chia buồn
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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Vietnamese:
phân ưu
— offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one