[Vocabulary] Congratulate for/on?

[Mad-ox]

Hello everybody,


Which one is correct and why:

I congratulate you for your success.

I congratulate you on your success.


Thank you in advance,

Madox

 

[5jj]

On

 

[billmcd]

I think you would hear/read either. But as a general guideline, if you want to make a distinction between use of the two, I would suggest, "on" followed by a noun (on your success, promotion, award, achievement etc.) and "for" followed by gerunds (for winning, achieving, creating, getting etc.)

 

[5jj]

I think you would hear/read either. But as a general guideline, if you want to make a distinction between use of the two, I would suggest, "on" followed by a noun (on your success, promotion, award, achievement etc.) and "for" followed by gerunds (for winning, achieving, creating, getting etc.)

This may be a BrE/AmE difference. We'd use 'on' for both nouns and gerunds.