Chinese (Mandarin)

Spanish

English

Hindi

Arabic

Portuguese

Bengali

Russian

Japanese

Punjabi

German

Javanese

Malay

Telugu

Vietnamese

Korean

French

Marathi

Tamil

Urdu

Turkish

Italian

Chinese, Yue / Cantonese

Thai

Gujarati

Chinese, Jin

Chinese, Min Nan

Persian, Dari

Persian, Western

Polish

Pashto

Kannada

Chinese, Xiang

Malayalam

Sundanese

Hausa

Odia

Burmese

Chinese, Hakka

Ukrainian

Bihari, Bhojpuri

Tagalog

Yoruba

Bihari, Maithili

Uzbek

Sindhi

Amharic

Fula

Romanian

Oromo

Igbo

Azerbaijani

Chinese, Gan

Dutch

Kurdish, Central

Kurdish, Northern

Kurdish, Southern

Malagasy

Lahnda, Saraiki

Nepali

Sinhalese

Chittagonian

Zhuang

Khmer

Turkmen

Assamese

Madurese

Somali

Marwari

Bihari, Magahi

Haryanvi

Hungarian

Chhattisgarhi

Greek

Chewa

Dakhini

Akan, Twi

Akan, Fante

Kazakh

Chinese, Min Bei

Sylheti

Zulu

Czech

Kinyarwanda

Marwari, Dhundhari

Haitian Creole

Chinese, Min Dong

Ilocano

Quechua

Kirundi

Swedish

Hmong

Shona

Uyghur

Hiligaynon

Mossi

Xhosa

Belarusian

Balochi

<p>
	You've already learned the phrases <strong>すみません</strong> and <strong><ruby>失situ</ruby><ruby>礼rei</ruby>します</strong> for apologizing.
	A third way to apologize yourself is to use the phrase <strong>ごめん　なさい</strong>.
</p>

<table class="ui celled fixed table">
    <tbody>
        <tr data-item="252062"></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	<strong>ごめん　なさい</strong> can be used after a verb in the <strong>て-form</strong> to excuse yourself for an action.
</p>

<table class="ui celled fixed table">
    <tbody>
        <tr data-item="252064"></tr>
		<tr data-item="252065"></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	Note how in the last sentence <strong>の</strong> is placed after the first verb to turn it into a noun.
</p>

<p>
	When asking permission to enter someone's house you can say <strong>ごめん　ください</strong>.
	When you are allowed inside, it is polite to say <strong>お<ruby>邪zya魔ma</ruby>します</strong>.
</p>

<table class="ui celled fixed table">
    <tbody>
        <tr data-item="252071"></tr>
		<tr data-item="252072"></tr>
		<tr data-item="252075"></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Apologizing with ごめん　なさい

adjectival noun

adjectival phrase

adnominal

adverb

adverbial noun

adverbial phrase

auxiliary

case particle

compound

conjunction

conjunctive particle

discourse

discourse particle

expression

godan - group 1

group 3

hiragana character

hiragana writing

i-adjective

interjection

intransitive

itidan - group 2

kanji

kanji component

kanji writing

katakana character

katakana writing

na-adjective

noun

numeral

particle

phrase

prefix

pronoun

proper noun

reading vocabulary

sentence

suffix

transitive

verb

The verb to be

Hiragana 1

Kanji 1

Writing hiragana 1

Writing kanji 1

Hiragana 2

Kanji 2

The question particle か

Writing hiragana 2

This one and that one

Writing kanji 2

Reading exercise 1

Reading exercise 2

Hiragana 3

Negating nouns

Writing hiragana 3

The topic particle は

Kanji 3

The possession particle の

い-adjectives and な-adjectives

The subject particle が

Here and there

There is, there are

Writing kanji 3

Kanji 4

Group 1 verbs, direct and indirect objects

Group 2 verbs

Hiragana 4

Verbs in the past tense

Negating verbs

Invitations and the particle と

Negating past verbs

Writing hiragana 4

Reading exercise 3

Writing kanji 4

Reading exercise 4

Kanji 5

Nouns and the past tense

This and that

The group 3 verbs する and 来る

The discourse particles ね and よ

The location particles に and で

Hiragana 5

Writing hiragana 5

Writing kanji 5

The destination particles に and へ

Kanji 6

The origin particle から

Hiragana 6

Relative positions

Conjugating い-adjectives

Writing hiragana 6

Writing kanji 6

Hiragana 7

Writing hiragana 7

Kanji 7

Conjugating な-adjectives

How are you?

The particle も

The word ちょっと

Question	Answer
pardon; sorry	ごめんgomen
I beg your pardon; Excuse me.	ごめん　なさい。gomen nasai.
really, truly	本ほん当とう　にhontou ni
I'm truly sorry.	本ほん当とう　に　ごめん　なさい。hontou ni gomen nasai.
to be late; to be delayed; to be overdue	遅おくれるokureru
Please excuse my being late.	遅おくれて　ごめん　なさい。okurete gomen nasai. Sentence from Tatoeba
Please forgive me for forgetting to call you.	電でん話わするの　を　忘わすれて　ごめん　なさい。denwasuruno o wasurete gomen nasai. Sentence from Tatoeba
May I come in; Please forgive me.	ごめん　ください。gomen kudasai.
Please come in.	どうぞ　入はいって　ください。douzo haitte kudasai.
obstacle; hindrance	邪じゃ魔まjama
to disturb; to interrupt	邪じゃ魔まするjamasuru
Excuse me for interrupting you; Used as a greeting when entering someone's home	お邪じゃ魔まします。ojamashimasu.
A: May I come in? B: Please come in. A: Excuse me for interrupting you.	A：　ごめん　ください。　B：　どうぞ　入はいって　ください。　A：　お邪じゃ魔まします。A: gomen kudasai. B: douzo haitte kudasai. A: ojamashimasu.

Contributors