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ごめんなさい
ごめんなさい
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I beg your pardon, excuse me, I'm sorry
Gomen nasai is the honorific imperative of 免ずる (menzuru, “to spare; to exempt”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Honorific imperative of 免(めん)ずる (menzuru, “to spare; to exempt”), equivalent to 御(ご) (go-) + 免(めん) (men) + なさい (nasai).”
Source: Wiktionary: ごめんなさい (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.