"offer one's condolences" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-offer one's condolences.ogg [Australia] Forms: offers one's condolences [present, singular, third-person], offering one's condolences [participle, present], offered one's condolences [participle, past], offered one's condolences [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Death Translations (offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one): 弔唁 (Chinese Mandarin), 吊唁 (diàoyàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 弔唁,吊唁 (Chinese Mandarin), 吊唁 (Chinese Mandarin), upřímnou soustrast (Czech), condoleren (Dutch), otan osaa [phrase] (Finnish), esittää osanottonsa [verb] (Finnish), présenter ses condoléances (French), berbelasungkawa (Indonesian), 哀悼の意を表する (aitō-no i-o hyō-suru) (Japanese), kondolerer (Norwegian Bokmål), kondolerar (Norwegian Nynorsk), выража́ть соболе́знования (vyražátʹ soboléznovanija) (Russian), вы́разить соболе́знования (výrazitʹ soboléznovanija) (Russian), dati sućut (Serbo-Croatian)

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      "sense": "offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one",
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      "sense": "offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one",
      "word": "présenter ses condoléances"
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      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one",
      "word": "berbelasungkawa"
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      "roman": "aitō-no i-o hyō-suru",
      "sense": "offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one",
      "word": "哀悼の意を表する"
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      "word": "kondolerer"
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      "roman": "vyražátʹ soboléznovanija",
      "sense": "offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one",
      "word": "выража́ть соболе́знования"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "výrazitʹ soboléznovanija",
      "sense": "offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one",
      "word": "вы́разить соболе́знования"
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      "sense": "offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one",
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