what a pity

English

Phrase

what a pity

1. Used to express regret or disappointment about an unfortunate event or piece of information.

   Synonyms: what a shame; see also Thesaurus:what a pity

   What a pity you can't attend our party tonight.

Translations

used to express regret

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: يَا خَسَارَة (yā ḵasāra), يَا لَلْأَسَف (yā la-l-ʔasaf)
• Armenian: ափսոս (hy) (apʻsos)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: які́ жаль (jakí žalʹ)
• Bulgarian: жа́лко (bg) (žálko), за жа́лост (za žálost), уви́ (bg) (uví)
• Catalan: quina llàstima
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 真遺憾 / 真遗憾 (zhēn yíhàn), 真倒霉 (zhēn dǎoméi)

• Czech: to je škoda
• Danish: det er synd
• Dutch: wat jammer
• Esperanto: domaĝe
• Estonian: kahju (et)
• Finnish: sääli (fi), ikävää, harmi (fi), voi harmi, harmin paikka (fi)
• French: quel dommage (fr), dommage (fr)
• Galician: que mágoa
• Georgian: რა სამწუხაროა (ra samc̣uxaroa)
• German: das ist aber schade, schade (de), wie schade
• Greek: τι κρίμα (ti kríma)
• Hebrew: כמה חבל (kamá khavál)
• Hungarian: kár (hu), de kár, milyen kár
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: peccato (it), che peccato!
• Japanese: 残念 (ja) (ざんねん, zannen)
• Khmer: គួរឱ្យអាណិតណាស់ (kuə ʼaoy ʼaanət nah)
• Korean: 유가밉니다 (yugamimnida), 유감입니다 (yugamimnida), 안됐다 (andwaetda)
• Ladino: ke pekado
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Low German:

  German Low German: dat is aver schaad, schaad (nds)

• Malay: sayang (ms)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: det var synd

• Persian: چه حیف (če heyf), حیف شد (heyf šod)
• Polish: szkoda (pl)
• Portuguese: que pena
• Romanian: ce păcat
• Russian: как жа́ль (kak žálʹ), жа́ль (ru) (žálʹ), кака́я жа́лость (ru) (kakája žálostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ште̏та

  Roman: štȅta (sh)

• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: qué lástima, qué pena
• Swedish: vad synd
• Tagalog: sayang! (tl)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ne yazık
• Ukrainian: яки́й жаль (jakýj žalʹ), яка́ шко́да (jaká škóda)
• Vietnamese: tiếc quá, chán thế, chán nhỉ
• Votic: žaali