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CONGRATULATE

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congratulate verb A. tranzitiv

(on, upon) a felicita pentru / cu prilejul (cu gen.).a firitisi pentru / cu prilejul (cu gen.).

congratulate verb B. reflexiv

a se felicita a fi mulţumit de sine;

I congratulate myself on my behaviour (nu pot decât să) mă felicit pentru purtarea mea.

congratulate verb C. intranzitiv

a prezenta, a aduce felicitări; a face urări de bine.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I said that I congratulated myself on having the honour to make hers, and that the happiness was mutual.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"Rather a pleasant year on the whole!" said Meg, smiling at the fire, and congratulating herself on having treated Mr. Brooke with dignity.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Allen congratulated herself, as soon as they were seated, on having preserved her gown from injury.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I do congratulate you, Mrs. Weston, most warmly.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“My dear, dear Lizzy, I would—I do congratulate you—but are you certain? forgive the question—are you quite certain that you can be happy with him?”

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

As to the note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I congratulate you again.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I trust that I shall soon have to congratulate you upon a successful conclusion.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Allow me to congratulate you on having so respectable and well-judging a friend, and to join in his wish that the living—it is about two hundred a-year—were much more considerable, and such as might better enable you to—as might be more than a temporary accommodation to yourself—such, in short, as might establish all your views of happiness.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Edmund would be forgiven for being a clergyman, it seemed, under certain conditions of wealth; and this, she suspected, was all the conquest of prejudice which he was so ready to congratulate himself upon.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

After addressing her with his usual politeness, he turned to his daughter and said, “Well, Eleanor, may I congratulate you on being successful in your application to your fair friend?”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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