pardon me

English

(idiomatic) Sorry; said as an apology.
Pardon me for stepping on your foot.
(idiomatic) Polite expression used to soften a contradiction.
Pardon me, but that is not true.
(idiomatic, Canada, US) Polite expression to ask someone to repeat an utterance.
Pardon me, I didn't hear you.

sorry, as an apology

American Sign Language: BentB@BaseHand-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterSternumhigh-UlnarAcross BentB@TipHand-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterSternumhigh-UlnarAcross
Arabic: عَفْوًا‎‎ (ʿafwan)
Chinese: 对不起 (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)

Italian: scusami
Japanese: 御免なさい (ごめんなさい, gomen nasai)
Korean: 용서하십시요 (yongseohasipsiyo)
Macedonian: извинете (izvínete), простете (próstete), извини (ízvini) (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

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