pardon me

English

Pronunciation

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Phrase

(deprecated template usage) pardon me

1. (idiomatic) Sorry; said as an apology.

   Pardon me for stepping on your foot.

2. (idiomatic) Polite expression used to soften a contradiction.

   Pardon me, but that is not true.

3. (idiomatic, Canada, US) Polite expression to ask someone to repeat an utterance.

   Pardon me, I didn't hear you.

Synonyms

• (polite expression to get someone to repeat): come again, pardon, what; see also Thesaurus:say again

Related terms

• excuse me
• pardon

Translations

sorry, as an apology

• American Sign Language: BentB@BaseHand-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterSternumhigh-UlnarAcross BentB@TipHand-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterSternumhigh-UlnarAcross
• Arabic: عَفْوًا (ʕafwan)
• Chinese: 对不起 (zh) (duì bù qì)
• Dutch: pardon (nl)
• Finnish: suokaa anteeksi
• French: excusez-moi (fr)
• Galician: perdoe
• German: Entschuldigung (de)
• Greek: συγγνώμη (el) (syngnómi)
• Hebrew: סְלִיחָה (he) f (sliḥá), סְלָח לִי (slaḥ li) (to a male), סִלְחִי לִי (silḥí li) (to a female), סִלְחוּ לִי (silḥú li) (to a group)
• Hungarian: bocsánat (hu)
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• Italian: scusami
• Japanese: 御免なさい (ごめんなさい, gomen nasai)
• Korean: 용서하십시요 (yongseohasipsiyo)
• Macedonian: извинете (izvinete), простете (prostete), извини (izvini) (familiar, informal)
• Norwegian: unnskyld meg, om forlatelse
• Portuguese: perdão (pt), desculpe-me, me desculpa, desculpas (pt), desculpa (pt)
• Russian: прости́те (ru) (prostíte)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wódaj (singular familiar), wódajśo (plural, polite)

• Spanish: discúlpeme
• Swedish: ursäkta mig

polite expression to get someone to repeat

• Finnish: anteeksi (fi)
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• Greek: ορίστε; (el) (oríste?)

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