Sorry.
🔊 Es tut mir leid, aber ich kann morgen nicht kommen.
excuse me · sorry
çekim: çoğul pardons
köken: Deverbal from pardonner.
aile: demander pardon, Grand Pardon
I'm sorry
eş: mil disculpas, perdón, mala mía
köken: Literally, “I feel it”. From sentir.
🔊 Lo siento mucho.
I'm sorry (literally, “it cause me regret”)
excuse, pretext (explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgement) · apology (expression of remorse)
çekim: çoğul desculpas
eş: perdão, foi mal
köken: Deverbal from desculpar. Compare Catalan and Spanish disculpa.
aile: desculpas, desculpa esfarrapada
sorry (an apology) · excuse me (UK), pardon me (US)
çekim: çoğul συγγνώμες · tamlayan συγγνώμης
eş: με συγχωρείτε, παρντόν
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek συγγνώμη (sungnṓmē) and semantic loan from French pardon.
I'm sorry (when apologizing for having acted in a (morally) bad way)
çekim: çoğul förlåter · tamlayan förlåts
köken: The interjection is from the imperative of förlåta. Literally, “forgive!”
🔊 Jag menade inte att såra dig. Förlåt!
sorry; I'm sorry, excuse me
eş: sorry
köken: First-person singular of przepraszać.
sorry, I'm sorry · excuse me, excuse us · pardon, please repeat
köken: The translative singular of now archaic anne (“gift”). Compare Estonian andeks, Ingrian anteeks (in antaa anteeks), Karelian andiekši, Votic antõssi; at least some of these may be borrowed from Finnish, according to SSA. For the semantic connection between giving and apologizing, compare also the formation of English forgive.
aile: antaa anteeksi, pyytää anteeksi, suoda anteeksi, anteeksiantamaton, anteeksiantaminen, anteeksiantamus, anteeksianto, anteeksipyydellen, anteeksipyyntö, anteeksipyytelemätön
second-person plural imperative of prominout
köken: The interjection literally means "forgive (me)".
first-person singular indicative present definite of sajnál
köken: sajnál + -om
🔊 Sajnálom, hogy nem tudtunk találkozni.
sorry (expression of regret or sorrow) · excuse me · pardon
köken: From undskylde (“to excuse”), Middle Low German entschulden. Cognate with Norwegian unnskyld and German entschuldigen.