sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote in [personal profile] moon_custafer 2022-04-24 07:27 pm (UTC)

I’m pretty sure “es tut mir lied” has too many words to literally mean “I’m sorry,” and is probably something like “it’s all my fault/my bad.”

"Es tut mir leid" literally means something much more like "It pains me" (it does grief to me). More idiomatically in English, "I feel bad about that."

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