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съжалявам — meaning in English

sazhalyavam

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English meaning

  • commiserate adj Commiserating, pitying, lamentful.
  • compassionate adj Showing genuine concern and kindness toward someone who is suffering.
  • deplore verb To express strong disapproval of something.
  • regret verb To feel sorry about something that happened, or wish it had gone differently.
  • repent verb To feel deep regret for something wrong you have done, often wanting to change.
  • rue verb To bitterly regret something, especially a decision or action.
  • sorry adj Feeling regret or wanting to apologize for something one did.

Senses

съжалявам is used for these senses in English:

  • compassionate (transitive, archaic) To feel compassion (for someone or with regard to something); to regard (someone or something) with compassion.
  • deplore (transitive) To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
  • regret To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
  • repent (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
  • repent (theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
  • rue (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
  • sorry Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.

compassionate — full definition

  1. adj Showing genuine concern and kindness toward someone who is suffering.
  2. adj Granted as an exception because of a family emergency, illness, or bereavement.

Related Bulgarian words