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"forgive me" is not a proper translation, it should be "excuse me"? Really?
Yeah, this is not correct idiomatic English. I went with pardon me and it was also wrong.
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Dictionary guves excuse me and sorry, but we dont say excuse me uf you cant do sinethibg because you have other plans. You say excuse me if you get in 'someones way or interrupt them, so it shouldnt be an alternate translation. You usually say sorry, but i have other plans. If its a close friend i coukd see saying forgive me, si that shoukd be the alternate here.
Get lost, cyka! I already say "I have plan", now you say you have me in plan?!
In the US, I think a better translation would be "I'm sorry, but I have plans" instead of "excuse me."
Personal opinion. I use ЗАТО in more positive light after answering a negative sentence.
For example: ОН ТОЛСТЫЙ, ЗАТО ОН СИЛЬНЫЙ. HE IS FAT, BUT HE IS STRONG.
НО is a general use for BUT, and I often use it in negative way after positive response.
For instance: ОН ТОЛСТЫЙ, НО НЕ ЗНАЕТ СУМО. HE IS FAT, BUT DOES NOT KNOW SUMO.
‘Извините, но у меня уже есть планы.’
If you want, you could change ‘извините’ for ‘простите’ to make the sentence even more formal. ☺
Odd...I was taught that ‘простите’ means ‘I am sorry’ where as ‘извините’ only means ‘excuse me’, and I made the conclusion that ‘простите’ is more formal than ‘извините’ since ‘I am sorry’ sound more formal to me than ‘excuse me.’ This I was taught by RussianPod101: https://goo.gl/s5CnwA.
"Простите" and "извините" are full synonyms, I can't think of any case when they're not interchangeable. The latter seems to be much more used.
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Haha "Ich habe Pläne, große Pläne!" Weird until i read MardukSky's response, then it clicked. :D Russians do like Rammstein, don't they?
This seems to be a villian's response to an attempt to get them to monologue.
I feels to me like this should be translated as "but I DO have plans". Wouldn't it be correct because of "но"?
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Again the problem of literal translation vs language as used. "Excuse me" is not usual way of expression in this instance. Sorry would be much more common. More likely would be "Sorry, but I have other plans". (or even more likely would be words not used on Duolingo)
