sorry

I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.

(of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.

I feel sorry for you, about your exam results.

The President was sorry to hear that the Ambassador was leaving.

(of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.

The storm left his garden in a sorry state.

Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player.

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.

2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

en-adj

sorry (comparative sorrier, superlative sorriest)

sorrier (comparative)
sorriest (superlative)

stare dispiaciuto

Dispiacere can mean "to make one regret."

lamentans (literally “regretting”) (present participle of lamentāre)

saber greu

translates as "to make one be sorry" in the sympathetic sense

lamentar

translates as "to be sorry" in the sympathetic sense

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. Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not related to sorrow. Equivalent to sore + -y.


sorry

Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.

Sorry about yesterday. — No worries.

Sorry I’m so late.

Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.

Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.

There are four– sorry, five branches of the store locally.

Sorry! Coming through!

→ Czech: sorry

→ Dutch: sorry
→ Papiamentu: sòri

→ German: sorry

→ Finnish: sori

→ Hindi: सॉरी (sŏrī)

→ Icelandic: sorrí, sorrý

→ Korean: 쏘리 (ssori)

→ Polish: sorry, sorki

→ Scots: sorry, sorra

→ Spanish: sorry

→ Swedish: sorry

→ Welsh: sorri

→ Luxembourgish: sorry

죄송해요

little more polite, little less informal

معاف کیجئے (ma'āf kījie, literally “forgive me”)

میں معذرت چاہتا ہوں (ma͠i ma'azirat cāhtā hū̃, literally “I ask forgiveness”)

다시 한번 더 말씀해주시겠어요?

dasi hanbeon deo malsseumhaejusigesseoyo?


sorry

The British would do it standing stock still, Latinos would dance their sorries, and Canadians would find a way to apologize on ice.

2007, Christopher Levan, Give Us This Day: Lenten Reflections on Baking Bread and Discipleship, page 107:

So learn how to tailor your sorries to the sexes. Women tend to want an acknowledgment of what they're going through...

2008, Lucy S. Danziger, Self Magazine's 15 Minutes to Your Best Self:


sorry

Jus' that once I sorried for her. Souls cross the skies o' time, Abbess'd say, like clouds crossin' skies o' the world.

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Toronto, Ont.: Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 302:

(intransitive, transitive, rare) To feel sorry (for someone).

en-verb

sorry (third-person singular simple present sorries, present participle sorrying, simple past and past participle sorried)

sorries (present singular third-person)
sorrying (participle present)
sorried (participle past)
sorried (past)