offer one's condolences

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

offer one's condolences (third-person singular simple present offers one's condolences, present participle offering one's condolences, simple past and past participle offered one's condolences)

1. (idiomatic) To offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one.

   The president offered his condolences to the mother of the dead soldier.

Translations

offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弔唁 / 吊唁 (zh) (diàoyàn), 弔唁,吊唁 / 吊唁,吊唁 (diàoyàn)

• Czech: upřímnou soustrast
• Dutch: condoleren (nl)
• Finnish: otan osaa (phrase), esittää osanottonsa (verb)
• French: présenter ses condoléances
• Indonesian: berbelasungkawa (id)
• Japanese: 哀悼の意を表する (aitō-no i-o hyō-suru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kondolerer

  Nynorsk: kondolerar

• Russian: выража́ть соболе́знования (vyražátʹ soboléznovanija), вы́разить соболе́знования (výrazitʹ soboléznovanija)
• Serbo-Croatian: dati sućut
• Vietnamese: chia buồn (vi), phân ưu (vi)