certificate
verb/səˈtɪfɪkeɪt/
/sərˈtɪfɪkeɪt/
(British English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they certificate | /səˈtɪfɪkeɪt/ /sərˈtɪfɪkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it certificates | /səˈtɪfɪkeɪts/ /sərˈtɪfɪkeɪts/ |
| past simple certificated | /səˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪd/ /sərˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle certificated | /səˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪd/ /sərˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form certificating | /səˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪŋ/ /sərˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- certificate somebody (to do something) to give somebody an official document proving that they have successfully completed a training course, especially for a particular professionTopics Successb2Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘certification’): from French certificat or medieval Latin certificatum, from certificare, from Latin certus ‘certain’.
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