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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Date: 2022-04-24 07:27 pm (UTC)From:"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."