Akan Teleteaching Course
Unit 6.2: Excusing oneself and asking pardon
Saying sorry (one person)
Saying sorry (several persons)
Mepa wo kyñáw.
Mepa mo kyñáw.
Mesrñá woá.
Mesrñá moá.
Please! I ask your pardon. / I 'beg' you. (= Ghanaian English)
Asking pardon (from one person)
Asking pardon (from several persons)
Fa firi me
!
Moámfa máfiri me
!
Fa me bõáneá kyñá me
!
Moámfa me bõáneá nákyñ me
!
Excuse me/Forgive me!
Response (to one person)
Response (several persons)
Mede akyñá wo.
Mede akyñá mo.
I forgive you.
Ñnyñá hwee!
It's nothing!
Excusing an improper expression (which one is going to use "bold on record", cf. Brown and Levinson, 1987)
Sñábeá oo
!
Tafraákyñá
!
Excuse me for saying (that)!
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