félicités

In a sentence

• Nous avons félicités les étudiants pour leur excellent travail.

  We congratulated the students for their excellent work.

  Here, 'félicités' is used as the past participle in the past tense, serving as an action performed by the subject towards others.

• Les sportifs ont été félicités après leur victoire.

  The athletes were congratulated after their victory.

  In this sentence, 'félicités' appears in its passive form to denote the reception of congratulations.

• Ils se sont félicités d'avoir pris cette décision collective.

  They congratulated themselves for having made this collective decision.

  Here, 'félicités' is employed reflexively, where the subject congratulates themselves for an action.