sorry
English
Etymology
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. By surface analysis, sor(e) + -y. Unrelated to sorrow despite the similarity in form and meaning.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sorry (comparative sorrier, superlative sorriest)
- (of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
- Synonyms: apologetic, compunctious, contrite, penitent, regretful, remorseful, repentant; see also Thesaurus:regretful, Thesaurus:remorseful
I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.
- (of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
- Synonyms: heavy-hearted, melancholy, mournful; see also Thesaurus:sad
I feel sorry for you, about your exam results. The President was sorry to hear that the Ambassador was leaving.
- Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
- Synonyms: pathetic, pitiable; see also Thesaurus:pitiful
The storm left his garden in a sorry state.
1948, Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Part One, 1:... often the only movement on the landscape is winter smoke winding out the chimney of some sorry-looking farmhouse ...
- Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
- Synonyms: deficient, insufficient; see also Thesaurus:inadequate
Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player.
2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:The sorry experience did little to suggest that Musk knows how to run a social media platform or that DeSantis is capable of governing a global superpower armed with nuclear weapons.
Derived terms
Translations
poor, regrettable
- American Sign Language: A@Chest-PalmBack CirclesVert
- Arabic: مُؤْسِف (ar) (muʔsif), مُحْزِن (muḥzin)
- Bulgarian: жалък (bg) (žalǎk)
- Catalan: llastimós
- Czech: žalostný m
- Danish: sørgelig
- Dutch: armzalig (nl), treurig (nl)
- Finnish: surkea (fi), surullinen (fi)
- French: piteux (fr)
- German: beklagenswert (de), armselig (de), traurig (de)
- Greek: συγνώμη (el) (sygnómi)
- Ancient Greek: φαῦλος (phaûlos)
- Japanese: (poor) 気の毒 (ja) (ki no doku), かわいそう (ja) (kawaisō); (regrettable) 残念 (ja) (zannen), 遺憾 (ja) (ikan)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پەشیمان (ckb) (peşîman)
- Limburgish: zörgelik
- Norwegian: sørgelig (no)
- Polish: przykry (pl), żałosny (pl)
- Portuguese: lastimável (pt) m or f
- Russian: жа́лкий (ru) (žálkij), плаче́вный (ru) (plačévnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: truagh
- Spanish: pobre (es)
- Swedish: sorglig (sv), ledsam (sv)
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Translations to be checked Interjection
sorry
- Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
- Synonym: (slang, chiefly Britain) soz
Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone. Sorry about yesterday. — No worries. Sorry I’m so late.
- Said as a request to excuse one's unintentional behaviors.
- Synonym: excuse me
Oops! Sorry!
- Said as a request to pass somebody.
- Synonym: excuse me
Sorry! Coming through!
- Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
- Synonyms: I beg your pardon?, I'm sorry?, say again, come again, (US) excuse me?; see also Thesaurus:say again
Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.
- Used to correct oneself in speech.
There are four—sorry, five—local branches of the store.
- Used as a hedge.
Sorry, but I don't care what you think.
Usage notes
- The interjection is generally understood as a clipping of I'm sorry.
- A typically sarcastic use slows down the rhythm and stresses the final syllable, as /ˌsɒˈɹiːː/. This is often spelled as sorree or emphatically as something like sor-REE!! in print.
Descendants
Translations
expression of regret or sorrow
- Adangme: kusie
- Afrikaans: jammer (af)
- Albanian: më falni (formal), më fal (informal)
- Alutiiq: kingun'inartua
- American Sign Language: A@Chest-PalmBack CirclesVert
- Amharic: አዝናለሁ (ʾäznalähu), እናዝናለን (ʾənaznalän), ይቅርታ (yəḳrəta),
- Arabic: آسِف m (ʔāsif), آسِفَة f (ʔāsifa), أَنَا آسِف m (ʔanā ʔāsif), أَنَا آسِفَة f (ʔanā ʔāsifa), اِعْذِرْنِي (iʕḏirnī)
- Moroccan Arabic: سمح لي (smaḥ li) (to a male), سمحي لي (samḥi li) (to a female), سمحوا لي (samḥu li) (to a group of people)
- South Levantine Arabic: آسف m (ʔāsif), آسفة f (ʔāsfe)
- Armenian: ներեցեք (nerecʻekʻ) (formal), կներեք (knerekʻ) (formal), ներիր (nerir) (informal), կներես (kneres) (informal), ներողություն (hy) (neroġutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: bağışlayın
- Basque: barka (eu), barkamen (eu)
- Belarusian: (formal) выбача́йце (vybačájcje), (informal) выбача́й (vybačáj)
- Bengali: দুঃখিত (bn) (dukkhito), মাফ করবেন (maph korben), সরি (bn) (śori)
- Bulgarian: (formal) извине́те (bg) (izvinéte), (informal) извинявай (bg) (izvinjavaj), съжалявам (bg) (sǎžaljavam), пардо́н (bg) (pardón) (colloquial), просте́те (bg) (prostéte) (formal), прости́ (bg) (prostí) (informal)
- Burmese: ဝမ်းနည်းပါတယ်။ (wam:nany:patai||), ဆောရီးနော်။ (hcau:ri:nau||)
- Catalan: perdó (ca), disculpes
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 對不起 / 对不起 (deoi3 bat1 hei2) (formal and written), 對唔住 / 对唔住 (yue) (deoi3 m4 jyu6), 唔好意思 (m4 hou2 ji3 si1)
- Hakka: 敗勢 / 败势 (phài-se), 斯里麻生 (sṳ̀-li-ma-sén), 對唔住 / 对唔住 (dui4 m2 cu4), 失禮 / 失礼 (sṳt-lî)
- Hokkien: 歹勢 / 歹势 (zh-min-nan) (pháiⁿ-sè, phái-sè), 毋好勢 / 毋好势 (zh-min-nan) (m̄-hó-sè), 對不住 / 对不住 (zh-min-nan) (tùi-put-chū), 對不起 / 对不起 (zh-min-nan) (tùi-put-khí), 失禮 / 失礼 (zh-min-nan) (sit-lé)
- Mandarin: 對不起 / 对不起 (zh) (duìbùqǐ), 抱歉 (zh) (bàoqiàn), 不好意思 (zh) (bù hǎoyìsi), 對不住 / 对不住 (zh) (duìbùzhù)
- Wu: 對勿起 / 对勿起, 勿好意思 (8veq-hau-i-sy)
- Czech: promiň (informal singular), promiňte (plural or formal singular), pardon (cs)
- Danish: undskyld (da), beklager
- Dutch: sorry (nl), het spijt me, pardon (nl), excuseer (nl)
- Esperanto: mi bedaŭras (sorrow), mi pardonpetas (remorse), pardonu (remorse)
- Estonian: vabandust (et), andestust, andeks, sorry (et) (colloquial)
- Finnish: anteeksi (fi), sori (fi), olen pahoillani, pahoittelen
- French: désolé (fr), navré (fr), excusez-moi (fr), excuse-moi (fr), pardon (fr) je m'excuse (fr)
- Garo: kema
- Georgian: უკაცრავად (uḳacravad)
- German: Entschuldigung (de), sorry (de); (more formal) entschuldigen Sie bitte, verzeihen Sie bitte, es tut mir leid, ich bitte um Entschuldigung, Verzeihung (de)
- Greek: συγγνώμη (el) (syngnómi)
- Gujarati: મને માફ કરજો (mane māph karjo) (formal), મને માફ કરો (mane māph karo) (informal)
- Hebrew: מִצְטַעֵר (he) (mitsta'ér)
- Hindi: माफ़ कीजिए (māf kījie), सॉरी (sŏrī)
- Hmong:
- White Hmong: thov txim
- Hungarian: elnézést (hu), elnézést kérek, bocsánat (hu), bocs (hu) (informal)
- Icelandic: fyrirgefðu (is), afsakið, fyrirgefðu mér
- Ido: me regretas
- Indonesian: maaf (id)
- Interlingua: pardono
- Irish: tá brón orm
- Italian: scusi (it), scusa (it), mi scusi (it), spiacente (it), spiacenti (it) m pl or f pl
- Japanese: すみません (ja) (sumimasen), すまない (ja) (sumanai) (informal), ごめんなさい (ja) (gomennasai), ごめん (ja) (gomen) (informal) 失礼しました (ja) (shitsurei shimashita), 申し訳ありません (ja) (もうしわけありません, mōshiwake arimasen)
- Jingpho: tawng ban sai yaw
- Karachay-Balkar: кечериксиз (keçeriksiz)
- Kazakh: кешіріңіз (keşırıñız) (formal)
- Khmer: សូមទោស (soum tooh)
- Korean: 죄송합니다 (ko) (joesonghamnida) (little more polite, little more formal), 미안합니다 (ko) (mianhamnida) (polite, formal), 실례합니다 (ko) (sillyehamnida) (polite, formal), 미안 (ko) (mian) (informal, casual), 미안해요 (ko) (mianhaeyo) (polite, informal), 죄송해요 (ko) (joesonghaeyo) (little more polite, little less informal)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ببوورە (bbûre)
- Kyrgyz: кечиресиз (ky) (keciresiz) (formal)
- Lao: ຂໍໂທດ (khǭ thōt), ຂໍອະໄພ (khǭ ʼa phai)
- Latin: mihi īgnōsce, excūsā, excūsāte pl, mihi īgnōscite pl, doleō (la), mē paenitet, meā culpā, paeniteō
- Latvian: piedodiet
- Limburgish: spietelik (li)
- Lithuanian: atsiprašau (lt), atleiskite, dovanokite (lt)
- Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon: et spit my(n), et moit my(n), et begrout my(n), pardon, ekskuseer, sorry
- German Low German: dat spyt my, (dat) deit my leyd, pardon
- Macedonian: извинете (izvinete) (formal), извини (izvini) (informal), простете (prostete) (formal), прости (prosti) (informal)
- Malay: maaf
- Maltese: skużi (mt), skużani
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: уучлаарай (uučlaaraj)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: unnskyld (no), beklager (no)
- Nynorsk: unnskyld, orsak
- Nǀuu: please add this translation if you can
- Okinawan: 悪さいびーん (わっさいびーん, wassaibīn)
- Pannonian Rusyn: пребачце (prebačce), пребач (prebač)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: مَعْذِرَت میخواهَم (ma'zerat mi-xâham), بِبَخْشید (fa) (bebaxšid), مُتَأَسِّفَم (mota'assefam)
- Polish: przepraszam (pl), przykro mi (pl), (informal) sorry (pl), wybacz, przebacz, pardon (pl) (rare), daruj (archaic)
- Portuguese: desculpa (pt), (formal) perdão (pt), (slang) foi mal
- Romanian: îmi pare rău, scuză (ro), (informal, familiar) scuză-mă, scuzați (ro), (formal, polite) scuzați-mă
- Russian: извини́те/извини́ (ru) (izviníte/izviní) (formal/informal), прости́те/прости́ (ru) (prostíte/prostí) (formal/informal), прошу́ проще́ния (prošú proščénija), (informal) извиня́юсь (ru) (izvinjájusʹ), пардо́н (ru) (pardón) (colloquial), со́рри (ru) (sórri) (slang)
- Sami:
- Northern Sami: ándagassii
- Scottish Gaelic: tha mi duilich
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: извините (formal), извини (informal), опростите
- Latin: izvinite (sh) (formal), izvini (sh) (informal), oprostite (sh)
- Slovak: (formal) prepáčte, (informal) prepáč (sk), bohužiaľ
- Slovene: (formal) oprostite, (informal) oprosti
- Spanish: discúlpame, perdóname, lo siento (es), perdón (es), ya lo siento
- Swedish: förlåt (sv)
- Tagalog: paumanhin (tl), patawad
- Tajik: мебахшед (tg) (mebaxšed), бубахшед (bubaxšed)
- Tatar: гафу итегез (ğafu itegez)
- Thai: ขอโทษ (th) (kɔ̌ɔ-tôot)
- Tibetan: དགོངས་དག (dgongs dag)
- Tonga (Zambia): cabija
- Turkish: pardon (tr), özür dilerim (literally “I apologize”), afedersin (tr) (colloquial, informal, singular), affedersin (tr) (written, informal, singular), afedersiniz (tr) (colloquial, formal, plural), affedersiniz (tr) (written, informal, singular) üzgünüm (literally “I am sorry”)
- Turkmen: bagyşlaň
- Ukrainian: проба́чте (probáčte) (formal), проба́ч (probáč) (informal), перепро́шую (perepróšuju), ви́бачте (výbačte) (formal), ви́бач (výbač) (informal), дару́йте (darújte) (formal), дару́й (darúj) (informal)
- Urdu: مُعاف کِیجِئے (mu'āf kījie, literally “forgive me”) (formal), مَعْذِرَت (ma'azirat), مَیں مَعْذِرَت چاہْتا ہُوں (ma͠i ma'zirat cāhtā hū̃, literally “I ask forgiveness”) (formal)
- Uyghur: كەچۈرۈڭ (kechürüng)
- Uzbek: kechirasiz (uz) (formal)
- Vietnamese: xin lỗi (vi)
- Walloon: mande escuze (wa)
- Welsh: mae'n ddrwg gen i, sori
- Yiddish: זײַ מיר מוחל (zay mir moykhl), עס טוט מיר לײַד (es tut mir layd)
- Zulu: ngiyaxolisa
- ǃXóõ: ǀùa ǁʻúm ǀnān
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request to repeat
- Afrikaans: ekskuus, wat het jy gesê?, wat sê jy? (informal)
- Arabic: عَفْوًا! (ʕafwan!), (to a male) مَاذَا قُلْتَ؟ (māḏā qulta?), (to a female) مَاذَا قُلْتِ؟ (māḏā qulti?), عُذْراً! (ar) (ʕuḏran!)
- Bulgarian: мо́ля? (bg) impf (mólja?)
- Catalan: perdó (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 請再説一遍 / 请再说一遍 (qǐng zài shuō yíbiàn), (less formal) 再説一遍 / 再说一遍 (zài shuō yíbiàn), (plain) 什麼？ / 什么？ (zh) (shénme), 哦？ (zh) (é?)
- Czech: prosím (cs)?
- Danish: undskyld (da)
- Dutch: pardon (nl)?, wat zegt u, wat zeg je
- Esperanto: pardonu
- Finnish: anteeksi (fi)
- French: excusez-moi (fr), excuse-moi (fr), pardon? (fr), comment? (fr), (plain) quoi (fr), hein? (fr) (colloquial)
- Georgian: უკაცრავად (uḳacravad), რა (ka) (ra)
- German: wie bitte? (de), bitte? (de), wie? (de) (plain)
- Hungarian: tessék? (hu), elnézést, nem értem
- Icelandic: afsakið?, fyrirgefðu (is)?
- Indonesian: maaf (id)
- Irish: gabh mo leithscéal
- Italian: cosa (it)?, come (it)?, scusa (it)?, eh (it)? (colloquial), scusi (it)? (formal), mi scusi (it)? (formal)
- Japanese: もう一回 (もういっかい, mō ikkai), もう一度 (もういちど, mō ichido), (more formal) もう一度いってください (mō ichido itte kudasai), (plain) 何？ (ja) (なに？, nani?), え？ (ja) (e?)
- Korean: 네? (ko) (ne?) (polite), 예? (ko) (ye?) (polite, formal), 다시 한번 더 말씀해주세요 (dasi hanbeon deo malsseumhaejuseyo) (polite, honorific), 다시 한번 더 말씀해주시겠어요? (dasi hanbeon deo malsseumhaejusigesseoyo?) (slightly more polite, honorific), 뭐라고? (mworago?) (informal), 뭐? (ko) (mwo?) (informal), 어? (ko) (eo?) (colloquial, informal), 넹? (ko) (neng?) (colloquial, aegyo, imitiatve)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ببوورە (bbûre), بەڵێ (bellê)
- Latin: repete
- Limburgish: waat? (li)
- Malay: minta maaf, maaf
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: юу гэнээ? (juu genee?)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: unnskyld (no)
- Pannonian Rusyn: модлїм (modljim), модлїме (modljime)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: بِبَخْشید (fa) (bebaxšid), مَعْذِرَت میخواهَم (ma'zerat mi-xâham)
- Polish: przepraszam? (pl), słucham?
- Portuguese: quê? (pt), como (pt)?, hein? (pt), perdão? (pt)
- Russian: прошу́ проще́ния (prošú proščénija), что вы сказа́ли (što vy skazáli)?, (plain) что? (ru) (što?)
- Sami:
- Northern Sami: ándagassii
- Scottish Gaelic: b' àill leat? (informal singular), b' àill leibh? (plural or formal singular)
- Serbo-Croatian: molim (sh)?
- Spanish: ¿cómo? (es), ¿perdón? (es), (Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, colloquial) ¿ah? (es), (Cuba, Spain, colloquial) ¿eh? (es), (Mexico, colloquial) ¿mande? (es), ¿qué cosa?
- Swedish: ursäkta (sv), förlåt (sv)
- Turkish: pardon (tr)?, efendim (tr)
- Ukrainian: про́шу? (próšu?), що? (uk) (ščo?) (informal), що-що? (ščo-ščo?) (informal)
- Urdu: جِی؟ (jī?), کْیا؟ (kyā?) (informal)
- Walloon: kimint djhoz? (ordinary and polite), kimint diss? (familiar), cwè (wa)? (colloquial), pardon (wa)? (formal)
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to correct oneself in speech
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Translations to be checked
- Fijian: (please verify) vosota sara
- Italian: (please verify) mi dispiace
- Lithuanian: (please verify) atsiprašau (lt)
- Sundanese: (please verify) punten
- Tagalog: (informal) (please verify) pasensiya na, (formal) (please verify) pasensiya na po, (for adjective, 2) (please verify) sira (tl) (southern) (please verify) paumanhin (tl)
- Tamil: (please verify) மன்னிக்கவும் (maṉṉikkavum)
- Welsh: (please verify) mae'n flin gen i, (please verify) mae'n ddrwg gen i
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Noun
sorry (plural sorries or sorrys)
- The act of saying sorry; an apology.
2007, Christopher Levan, Give Us This Day: Lenten Reflections on Baking Bread and Discipleship, page 107:The British would do it standing stock still, Latinos would dance their sorries, and Canadians would find a way to apologize on ice.
2008, Lucy S. Danziger, Self Magazine's 15 Minutes to Your Best Self:So learn how to tailor your sorries to the sexes. Women tend to want an acknowledgment of what they're going through...
Translations
Verb
sorry (third-person singular simple present sorries, present participle sorrying, simple past and past participle sorried)
- (intransitive, transitive, rare) To feel sorry (for someone).
References
Further reading
- “sorry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sorry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Chinese
Etymology
From English sorry.
Pronunciation
Interjection
sorry
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, Singapore Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, colloquial) sorry
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 對不起 (“sorry”) [map]
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Location
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Words
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| Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
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對不起
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| Northeastern Mandarin
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Beijing
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對不起
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| Taiwan
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對不起, 拍謝
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| Chengde
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對不起
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| Harbin
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對不起
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| Changchun
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對不起
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| Jilin
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對不住
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| Shenyang
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對不起
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| Malaysia
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對不起, 拍謝, 索利
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| Singapore
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對不起
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| Jilu Mandarin
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Cangzhou
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對不起
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| Baoding
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對不起
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| Shijiazhuang
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對不住
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| Xingtai
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對不住
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| Jinan
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對不起, 對不住
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| Jiaoliao Mandarin
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Dalian
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對不起
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| Yantai
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對不起
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| Qingdao
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對不起, 對不住
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| Central Plains Mandarin
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Luoyang
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對不住
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| Zhumadian
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對不住
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| Zhoukou
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對不住
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| Nanyang
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對不起, 對不住
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| Linyi
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對不起, 對不住
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| Wanrong
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對不起, 不好意思
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| Zhengzhou
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對不起, 外氣
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| Kaifeng
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對不住
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| Xi'an
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對不起, 對不住
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| Xianyang
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對不起
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| Lanyin Mandarin
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Yinchuan
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擔持
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| Lanzhou
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對不起
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| Ürümqi
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對不起
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| Southwestern Mandarin
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Chengdu
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對不起
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| Chongqing
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對不起, 對不住, 不好意思, 抱歉
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| Wuhan
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對不起
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| Lhasa
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對不起
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| Guiyang
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對不起
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| Kunming
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不好意思
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| Liuzhou
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對沒起, 沒好意思
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| Jianghuai Mandarin
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Nanjing
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對不起
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| Yangzhou
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對不起
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| Taizhou
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對不起
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| Nantong
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對不起
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| Hefei
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對不住
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| Cantonese
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Guangzhou
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對唔住
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| Hong Kong
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對唔住, sorry, sor informal
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| Macau
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對唔住
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| Taishan
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對唔住
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| Nanning
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對冇住
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| Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)
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對唔住, 派射, 梳呢
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| Singapore (Guangfu)
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對唔住
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| Gan
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Nanchang
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不好得的
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| Yichun
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對不住
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| Ji'an
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難為你
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| Hakka
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Meixian
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對唔住
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| Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)
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唔好意思
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| Miaoli (N. Sixian)
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失禮, 敗勢, 斯里麻生
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| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)
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失禮, 壞勢, 斯里麻生
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| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)
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失禮, 敗勢, 斯里麻生
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| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)
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失禮, 敗勢, 歪勢, 斯里麻生
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| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)
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失禮, 敗勢, 斯里麻生
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| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)
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失禮, 歹勢, 斯里麻生
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| Singapore (Dabu)
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敗勢
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| Jin
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Taiyuan
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對不起
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| Northern Min
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Jian'ou
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對伓住
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| Eastern Min
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Fuzhou
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對不住
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| Matsu
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對不住
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| Southern Min
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Xiamen
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歹勢, 對不住, 失禮
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| Quanzhou
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歹勢, 對不住
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| Zhangzhou
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䆀勢, 對不住
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| Taipei
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失禮, 歹勢
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| New Taipei (Sanxia)
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失禮
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| Kaohsiung
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失禮, 歹勢
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| Yilan
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失禮
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| Changhua (Lukang)
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失禮, 歹勢
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| Taichung
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失禮
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| Taichung (Wuqi)
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失禮
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| Tainan
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失禮, 歹勢
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| Taitung
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歹勢
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| Hsinchu
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失禮
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| Kinmen
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失禮
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| Penghu (Magong)
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失禮
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| Penang (Hokkien)
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歹勢, sorry
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| Singapore (Hokkien)
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歹勢, 對毋住, sorry
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| Manila (Hokkien)
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歹勢, 對不住
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| Chaozhou
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對毋住
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| Shantou
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對毋住
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| Singapore (Teochew)
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對毋住, 歹勢
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| Wu
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Shanghai
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勿好意思, 對勿起
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| Shanghai (Xinzhuang, Minhang)
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對勿起
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| Shanghai (Songjiang)
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對勿起
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| Shanghai (Chuansha, Pudong)
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對勿起
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| Shanghai (Jiading)
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對勿起
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| Shanghai (Chongming)
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對勿住
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| Suzhou
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對弗起
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| Wuxi
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對弗住
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| Kunshan
|
對弗起
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| Taicang
|
抱歉
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| Zhangjiagang
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對弗起
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| Haining (Xiashi)
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對勿住
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| Changzhou
|
對勿起
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| Hangzhou
|
對不起
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| Tonglu
|
對勿住
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| Shaoxing
|
對勿住
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| Ningbo
|
交代勿過, 勿好意思
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| Yuyao
|
對勿住, 交代勿過
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| Cixi
|
交代弗過
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| Taizhou (Jiaojiang)
|
對弗住
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| Linhai
|
對弗住
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| Wenzhou
|
對否起
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| Rui'an
|
對否起
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| Jinhua
|
對弗住, 弗好意思
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| Xiang
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Changsha
|
對不住
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| Loudi
|
對不住
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Czech
Etymology
Derived from English sorry.
Interjection
sorry
- (informal) sorry (I apologize)
- Synonym: pardon
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sorry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.ri/
- Hyphenation: sor‧ry
Interjection
sorry
- sorry (expressing regret)
- Je hebt me heel erg pijn gedaan toen je dat zei. — Sorry, dat is nooit mijn bedoeling geweest.
- You really hurt me a lot when you said that. — Sorry, that was never my intention.
- sorry, pardon, excuse me
- Je stond op mijn voet! — Oh, sorry!
- You were standing on my foot! — Oh, sorry!
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
German
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English sorry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɔʁi/, /ˈsɔʁi/
- Hyphenation: sor‧ry
Interjection
sorry
- (colloquial) sorry (expressing regret)
- Synonym: Entschuldigung
2020 December 24, Bernd Ulrich, “Das Jahr, in dem die Normalität zu Ende ging”, in Die Zeit[2]:[…] Armin Laschet und Olaf Scholz wollen vor allem die alte BRD bewahren und die Methode Merkel mit, sorry, schwächeren Mitteln prolongieren; […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “sorry”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[3] (in German)
- “sorry” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “sorry” in Duden online
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman soree.
Noun
sorry
- alternative form of sorre
Etymology 2
From Old English sāriġ.
Noun
sorry
- (Late ME) alternative form of sory
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English sorry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.rɘ/
- Rhymes: -ɔrɘ
- Syllabification: so‧rry
Interjection
sorry
- (informal) sorry! (expressing regret)
- Synonym: przepraszam
Further reading
- “sorry”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[4] (in Polish)
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English sorry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsori/ [ˈso.ri]
- Rhymes: -ori
- Syllabification: so‧rry
Interjection
sorry
- (informal) sorry (expressing regret)
- Synonym: perdón
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Swedish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English sorry.
Interjection
sorry
- (informal, casual) sorry (expressing regret)
Sorry, brevet låg i fel brevlåda. Råkade öppna.- Sorry, the letter was in the wrong letter box. Opened by mistake.
2024 January 12, Max Wiman, “Sorry, resten av Malmö – på Limhamn finns allt [Sorry, the rest of Malmö - Limhamn has everything]”, in Sydsvenskan:Det är svårt att sakna något här, så sorry resten av Malmö. Här finns allt.- It's hard to miss something here, so sorry the rest of Malmö. Everything is here.
Usage notes
- As with many English expressions in Swedish; the word sorry has much lower weight and meaning than its counterpart förlåt (“sorry”).
Synonyms
Anagrams
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sairag.
Pronunciation
Noun
sorry
- sorrow
Derived terms
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 69
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