Swedish interjection
sorry
sorry (expressing regret)
Meaning
sorry (expressing regret)
Practise sorry
1 / 1What does sorry mean?
sorry in a sentence
- Sorry, brevet låg i fel brevlåda. Råkade öppna.Sorry, the letter was in the wrong letter box. Opened by mistake.
Questions
What does sorry mean in English?
sorry means “sorry (expressing regret)”.
Origin
Unadapted borrowing from English sorry.
Nearby common words
sorry is number 7,306 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.
- 7,302brottsregister criminal record
- 7,303knivhuggen knifed (cut from a knife)
- 7,304stövla trudge
- 7,305spegla mirror, reflect
- 7,307shilling a shilling (English coin), shilling (currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda)
- 7,308polisarbete police work
- 7,309begränsning bounds, restriction
- 7,310innebörd meaning, significance
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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Browse the dictionary