Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gratulate
Participle: gratulated
Gerund: gratulating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gratulate |
| you | gratulate |
| he;she;it | gratulates |
| we | gratulate |
| you | gratulate |
| they | gratulate |
Perfect
| I | have gratulated |
| you | have gratulated |
| he;she;it | has gratulated |
| we | have gratulated |
| you | have gratulated |
| they | have gratulated |
Past
| I | gratulated |
| you | gratulated |
| he;she;it | gratulated |
| we | gratulated |
| you | gratulated |
| they | gratulated |
Pluperfect
| I | had gratulated |
| you | had gratulated |
| he;she;it | had gratulated |
| we | had gratulated |
| you | had gratulated |
| they | had gratulated |
Future
| I | will gratulate |
| you | will gratulate |
| he;she;it | will gratulate |
| we | will gratulate |
| you | will gratulate |
| they | will gratulate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gratulated |
| you | will have gratulated |
| he;she;it | will have gratulated |
| we | will have gratulated |
| you | will have gratulated |
| they | will have gratulated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gratulate |
| you | gratulate |
| he;she;it | gratulate |
| we | gratulate |
| you | gratulate |
| they | gratulate |
Perfect
| I | have gratulated |
| you | have gratulated |
| he;she;it | have gratulated |
| we | have gratulated |
| you | have gratulated |
| they | have gratulated |
Imperfect
| I | gratulated |
| you | gratulated |
| he;she;it | gratulated |
| we | gratulated |
| you | gratulated |
| they | gratulated |
Pluperfect
| I | had gratulated |
| you | had gratulated |
| he;she;it | had gratulated |
| we | had gratulated |
| you | had gratulated |
| they | had gratulated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gratulate |
| you | would gratulate |
| he;she;it | would gratulate |
| we | would gratulate |
| you | would gratulate |
| they | would gratulate |
Perfect
| I | would have gratulated |
| you | would have gratulated |
| he;she;it | would have gratulated |
| we | would have gratulated |
| you | would have gratulated |
| they | would have gratulated |
Imperative
| you | gratulate |
| we | Let's gratulate |
| you | gratulate |
Verbs conjugated like 'gratulate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gratulate'
granulate,
flatulate,
graduate,
graticulate,
gratinate,
spatulate,
adulate,
canulate,
coagulate,
congratulate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
First attested circa 1567; borrowed from Latin grātulātus, perfect active participle of grātulor, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Sample Sentences
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To gratify the good Andronicus, / And gratulate his safe return to Rome, / The people will accept whom he admits. [c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
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[H]is friends and neareſt companions, / Did gratulate his ſafetie with kinde words, […] [1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature D2, verso:]
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Queen Elizabeth. […] Whither away? / Lady Anne. No farther than the Tower; and, as I guess, / Upon the like devotion as yourselves, / To gratulate the gentle princes there. [c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
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“Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]” [1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 276:]
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1822, William Wordsworth, “Recovery” (Ecclesiastical Sketches/Sonnets, VII) in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1827, Volume 3, p. 33,
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[…] when a storm hath ceased, the birds regain / Their cheerfulness, and busily retrim / Their nests, or chant a gratulating hymn / To the blue ether and bespangled plain;
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1881, James Thomson, “Two Sonnets,” II, in Vane’s Story, Weddah and Om-el-Bonain, and Other Poems, London: Reeves & Turner, p. 166,
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Striving to sing glad songs, I but attain / Wild discords sadder than Grief’s saddest tune / As if an owl with his harsh screech should strain / To over-gratulate a thrush of June.