すみません

Kana: すみません

sorry

Example sentence

遅れてすみません。

おくれてすみません。

Sorry for being late.

What すみません means

すみません (すみません) is a Japanese word meaning “sorry”. It belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 1 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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