ご免 – Vocabulary details

ご免めん

Interjection

Usually written in kana

1. I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me

ごめん、今いま行いくから。Sorry, I'm coming right now.

2. may I come in?

Noun

Honorific

Usually written in kana

3. permission; leave; license

4. dismissal; discharge

5. not wanting; objecting to; being fed up with; wishing to avoid

usu. as 〜はごめんだ

二に度ど目めは絶ぜっ対たいにごめんだ。I absolutely refuse to do it a second time.

be exempt

ご

めん

honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix

(arch.) dismissal; (arch.) discharge

I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me

dismissal (from one's post); firing; being relieved from one's post; discarding; throwing away; becoming useless

to receive permission; to leave (with someone's permission); to retire; to refuse; to beg off doing

jpdb beta