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Get prepared to discover everything you have to know about the basic French sentence “Je suis désolé pour toi”.
More precisely, it includes a detailed definition of what it is and how you can use it in a normal conversation with an audio example. Along with the useful informations we sprinkled like synonym, dialogue example, slow pronunciation audio and more!
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Slow pronunciation
Normal pronunciation
If you want to express explicitly that you feel sorry for someone, use “Je suis désolé pour toi” in informal context and “Je suis désolé pour vous” in formal contexts. The second one also works when talking to a group of people (plural).
But if you want to simply express “I’m sorry“, there are many possibilities. Which one to choose will depend on the context and how much you want to apologize. Let’s break it into 4 scenarios:
1: Informal context and “normal” apologies, you can use:
2: Formal context and “normal” apologies, use:
3: Informal context and “big” apologies, use instead:
4: Formal context and “big” apologies, you can choose one of those:
Synonyms of “I’m sorry“:
Dialogue audio
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