御免

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) ごめん [gòméń] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [ɡo̞mẽ̞ɴ]

御免 (hiragana ごめん, katakana ゴメン, rōmaji gomen)

1. (informal) Clipping of 御免なさい (gomennasai, “I'm sorry”).
   • 1996 July 15, Adachi, Mitsuru, “途中下車 [Stopover]”, in SHORT PROGRAMショート・プログラム [SHORT PROGRAM], volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 94:

     一 (いっ)緒 (しょ)にいると楽 (たの)しかったから、…だまってた。ゴメンね。

     Issho ni iru to tanoshikatta kara, …damatteta. Gomen ne.

     We had a lot of fun together, …so I didn’t want to tell you. Sorry.

   • 2005 November 9, Watsuki, Nobuhiro, “武ブ装ソウ錬レン金キンファイナル [Armed Alchemy: The Final Act]”, in 武ブ装ソウ錬レン金キン [Armed Alchemy], volume 9, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

     ゴメン　斗 (ト)貴 (キ)子 (コ)さん　その約 (やく)束 (そく)守 (まも)れない　本 (ほん)当 (とう)にゴメン

     Gomen Tokiko-san Sono yakusoku mamorenai Hontō ni gomen

     I’m sorry, Tokiko-san. I can’t keep that promise. I’m really sorry.

   • 2016, Kumi Tanaka as Maxine “Max” Caulfield, ライフ イズ ストレンジ [Life Is Strange], Dontnod Entertainment, Square Enix:

     クロエ　ごめんね…　こんなのイヤだけど…　でも…

     Kuroe gomen ne… konna no iya da kedo… demo…

     Chloe, I’m so, so sorry… I don’t wanna do this… but…

• Often followed by the particle ね (ne), i.e.

  ごめんね！

  Gomen ne!

  I'm sorry!

• This is an example of a word that can be spelled with katakana to convey an informal conversational tone, as ゴメン.