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Sorry in many languages

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

Gujarati મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)

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)

Kazakh Кешіріңіз (Keşiriñiz)


Korean 미안합니다! (mianhamnida)
Lao 미안합니다! (mianhamnida)
Latin Ignosce mihi!
Latvian Piedod!
Lithuanian Atsiprašau! Atleiskite!
Low German Nix för ungood! Deit mi leed!
Luxembourgish Pardon
Жалам (Zhalam), Жал ми
е (Zhal mi e)
Macedonian
Извинете (Izvinete) -
frm, Извини (Izvini) - inf
Malay Ma'af
ക്ഷമിക്കണം! (kṣamikkaṇam)
Malayalam
പൊറുക്കണം! (porukkaṇam)
Maltese Skużani! Jiddispjaċini! Ahfirli!
S'doogh lhiam! S'treih lhiam!
Manx
S'olk lhiam! Gow my leshtal!
Māori Aroha Mai / Mō Taku Hē
Mongolian Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Norwegian Beklager, Unnskyld
Occitan Perdon! Desencusa! Desencusatz!
Persian (moteassefam) ‫!متاسفم‬
Polish Przepraszam!
Me desculpe! (frm) Desculpa!
Desculpe-me!
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Lamento! Sinto muito! sinto
mutíssimo!
Portuguese (European
Desculpe! (frm) Desculpa! (inf)
)
Romanian Pardon!
Простите! (Prastite) - frm,
Russian
Прости! (Prasti) - inf
Samoan Malie lou loto
Sardinian Mi dispraghidu!
Gabh mo leisgeul! Tha mi
Scottish Gaelic
duilich!
Scots Sairy!
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Serbian
Опростите (Oprostite)
Sesotho Ntshwarele
Shona Ndineurombo
Slovak Pardón!
Slovenian Oprostite (frm) Oprosti (inf)
Spanish ¡Perdón! ¡Perdone! ¡Lo siento!
Swahili Samahani
Swedish Förlåt!
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako!
Tagalog
Paumanhin (po)!
என்னை மன்னிச்சிடுங்க
Tamil
(enna maniichudunga)
మా క్షమాపణలు ! (maa
Telugu
kshamaapanalu)
Tetum Deskulpa!
Thai ผม(ฉัน)เสี ยใจ (pǒm (chân) sěe-a jai)
Tibetan ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Tongan Fakamolemole
Turkish Pardon (inf) Özür dilerim (frm)
Ukrainian Вибачте! (Vybačte)
Urdu (māf karna) ‫معاف کرنا‬
Uzbek Afu eting
Vietnamese Xin lỗi
Võro Andkõ andis!
Welsh Mae'n ddrwg da fi/gen i!
Yiddish (Zay moykhl!) ‫!זַײ מוחל‬
Xhosa Ndicela uxolo
Yorùbá Pẹlẹ
Zulu Uxolo!

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