"Yes, I am sorry!"

Translation: Tak, przepraszam!

[GrzegorzZa35157]

I could say . tak przepraszam

[FabianoEAn]

i did and gave me wrong. wybach is forgive me

[Kristine466318]

Except it is spelled wybacz.

[lilcez]

Przepraszam was the first Polish word that i learned. I saw it in a youtube video & wanted to know what it meant. Now im here learning Polish. Love it.

[CristinaGe7860]

Polisz person would not say "Tak, ja przepraszam" but "Tak, przepraszam"

[koboxar]

"Tak, przepraszam" to poprawie

[mskycc3]

Is there a difference between "Przepraszam." and "Ja przepraszam."?
Is "przepraszam" a verb? Perhaps the present tense first person singular?

[immery]

Przepraszam is a first person singular present tense verb. Przepraszać means to apologize.

Przepraszam, means phrases "I am sorry" and "Excuse me", it also means I apologize, or I am apologizing.

Ja przepraszam is I am sorry, or I apologize or I am apologizing, but with much more attention drawn to the I part of the sentence.

[Adhordal]

How do i prounounce it? Is the first R pronounced?

[Emwue]

Is the 's' in 'fresh' pronounced or 'c' in 'cheese'? ;)

These are examples of digraph in English, which is an orthographical convention where two letters represent one sound and just as English, Polish has a few of them, namely: „ch”, „cz”, „dz”, „dź”, „dż”, „rz”, and „sz.”

„Rz” represents voiced retroflex fricative /ʐ/ and it's best approximation would be English 'zh' as in 'Zhivago'.

[Adhordal]

Thanks man! I can see now why Polish has so many consonants bundled up, seemingly unpronounceable. I'll be working a bit more on the digraphs.

[Ash473779]

Can you inflect this verb for 2nd and 3rd person, for example "przepraszesz" "przeprasza" ?

[Jellei]

singular:
ja przepraszam
ty przepraszasz
on/ona/ono przeprasza

plural:
my przepraszamy
wy przepraszacie
oni/one przepraszają

And here you have "I am sorry", so of course nothing else than "ja" can be accepted ;)

[Ash473779]

Thanks Marek, I always use" przepraszam" in my everyday speech with my co workers but I had no idea it was a verb with it's own set of inflections until now :)

[184014169]

So is the first p pronounced? Could anyone bread down the full word phonetically for me so I can understand it as an English person?

[BelarusianBulgar]

Can I say "Jestem przepraszam"?

[Jellei]

No, that doesn't mean any sense.

[BelarusianBulgar]

Is this a verb?

[Jellei]

Yes, "przepraszam" is 1st person singular of "przepraszać", "to apologize".

So "We're sorry", for example, would be "Przepraszamy".

[BelarusianBulgar]

Dziekuje :)

[TROLLERGAC]

No it doesnt make any sense

[antek8882]

I chose tak przpraszam ....so why i am wrong

[Jellei]

Tak, przepraszam is the correct answer, it should obviously be accepted. But for some reason this sentence seems to have been deleted from the course, so I cannot check this in Incubator...

[jayda734080]

I dont know why but you have to put "tak ja przeprasam "

[Jellei]

I found the sentence in the Incubator and "Tak, przepraszam" is actually one of the starred answers...

[Tom78594]

This one is forgive me...not i am sorry...

[Jellei]

No, "forgive me" is "wybacz mi" (2nd person singular) or "wybaczcie mi" (2nd person plural).

[Nomen11]

Why isn't it Tak, Ja jestem prezepraszam

[Okcydent]

In Polish language there is only one present tense. This means that it often expresses the same things as English Present Simple and Present Continuous and even other tenses. So in this one and only present tense one never use constructions like „być” (to be) + verb and when it comes to modal verbs we use: „modał+ „infinitive”.

Also we normally drop prepositions as the ending of the verb often gives the same information. Leaving the preposition in Polish has different meaning, I.e underlining subject and showing contradictions.

[Jack911996]

I said Ja Jestem Przepraszam

[Jellei]

"Przepraszam" is actually a verb. It's 1st person singular of "przepraszać" = "to apologize".

Therefore "Ja jestem przepraszam" is like "I am I apologize". Makes no sense at all.