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offer one's condolences

offer one's condolences verb: to offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one.

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.

offer one's condolences meaning in Indonesian and Vietnamese

offer one's condolences in Indonesian

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

offer one's condolences in Vietnamese

offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
chia buồn, phân ưu

Forms of offer one's condolences

third-person singular presentoffers one's condolences
present participleoffering one's condolences
past participleoffered one's condolences
pastoffered one's condolences

Questions about offer one's condolences

What does offer one's condolences mean?
Offer one's condolences means to offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one.
What is offer one's condolences in Indonesian?
Offer one's condolences in Indonesian is berbelasungkawa. See Offer one's condolences meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is offer one's condolences?
Offer one's condolences is a verb.
What is the past tense of offer one's condolences?
The past tense of offer one's condolences is offered one's condolences.

Words near offer one's condolences in the dictionary

  1. offer affordances
  2. offer curve
  3. offer curves
  4. offer of proof
  5. offer one can't refuse
  6. offer one's condolences
  7. offer the light
  8. offer up
  9. offer versus serve
  10. offer wanted
  11. offer'd

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