御免

Japanese

Kanji in this term
御	免
ご Grade: S	めん Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

On’yomi: Goon
- (Tokyo) ごめん [gòméń] (Heiban – [0])
- IPA^(key): [ɡo̞mẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

御免 (hiragana ごめん, katakana ゴメン, rōmaji gomen)

(informal) Clipping of 御免なさい (gomennasai, “I'm sorry”).
- 1996 July 15, Adachi, Mitsuru, “途中下車 [Stopover]”, in SHORT PROGRAMショート・プログラム [SHORT PROGRAM], volume 2 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 94:
  一 (いっ)緒 (しょ)にいると楽 (たの)しかったから、…だまってた。ゴメンね。
  Issho ni iru to tanoshikatta kara, …damatteta. Gomen ne.
  We had a lot of fun together, …so I didn’t want to tell you. Sorry.
- 2016, Kumi Tanaka as Maxine “Max” Caulfield, ライフイズストレンジ [Life Is Strange] (in Japanese), Dontnod Entertainment, Square Enix:
  クロエ　ごめんね…　こんなのイヤだけど…　でも…
  Kuroe gomen ne… konna no iya da kedo… demo…
  Chloe, I’m so, so sorry… I don’t wanna do this… but…

Usage notes

Often followed by the particle ね (ne), i.e.
ごめんね！
Gomen ne!
I'm sorry!

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