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The usage of this word various from language to language and culture to culture. In the UK, for
example, people say sorry a lot, even when someone else is at fault.
Language Sorry
Afrikaans Jammer!
Albanian Më fal!
Arabic
(aasif/a - m/f) !آسف
(Egyptian)
Arabic
(āsif!) أسف
(Modern Standard)
Ներողությո'ւն: (Nerogh.utyun)
Armenian (Eastern)
Կներե'ք: (Knerek’)
Avar ТIасалъугьа! (Tʼasałuha)
Bağışlayın / Məni bağışlayın /
Azerbaijani
Üzr istəyirəm
Basque Barkatu
Прабачце (Prabachtsye)
Belarusian
Выбачайце (Vybachaytsye)
দুঃখিত (dukkhito) মাফ করবেন
Bengali
(maf korben)
हमके माफ करा (hamake maf
Bhojpuri
kara)
Bosnian Oprostite!
Breton Eskuzit ac'hanon! Digarez!
Bulgarian Съжалявам! (Sãžaljavam)
Catalan Perdó! Em sap greu
Chamorro Dispensa yo'
Chinese (Cantonese) 對唔住 (deuim̀hjyuh)
對不起 [对不起] duìbùqǐ 抱
Chinese (Mandarin)
歉 bàoqiàn
Chinese
Tevéchi
(Shanghainese)
Chinese (Taiwanese) 失禮 (sit-le2) 歹勢 (phain2-se3)
Croatian Žao mi je, Oprostite
Czech Pardon!
Danish Undskyld!
Dutch Het spijt me! Sorry!
Esperanto Mi bedaŭras!
Estonian Andke andeks!
Finnish Anteeksi
Désolé ! Je suis désolé ! Excusez-
moi ! Je m'excuse !
French
Pardon ! Oh, pardon, excusez-
moi ! Je vous demande pardon
Frisian (North) Fertrüt me!
Frisian (West) Pardon!
Friulian Scuse! Pardon!
Galician Síntoo!
Georgian ბოდიში (bodishi)
Es tut mir leid! Entschuldigung!
German
Ich bedaure!
Συγνώμη! (sygnómi)
Greek Λυπάμαι! (lypáme [lit. ‘I’m
saddened’]) - more frm
Hebrew (slicha) !סליחה
Hindi माफ़ कीजिये! (māf kījiye)
Hungarian Bocsánat!
Því miður / Fyrirgefðu / Mér
Icelandic
þykir það leitt (I'm sorry)
Ilocano Pakawan, Dispensar
Indonesian Maaf!
ᐄᑯᓗᒃ (Iikuluk) ᐊᐃᑦᑖ (Aittaaq)
Inuktitut
ᓂᑲᔪᖅ (Nakujuq)
Irish (Gaelic) Gabh mo leiscéal! Tá brón orm!
Scusa! (inf) Scusi! (frm) Mi
Italian
dispiace
Japanese ごめんなさい! (gomen nasai)
Jèrriais J'ai r'gret
Kannada ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ! (kshamisi)