失礼します。
Shitsurei shimasu.
Excuse me (on entering, leaving, or hanging up).
- Word for word
- “I will be rude.”
- Politeness: Polite
- です/ます style. The safe default with strangers, shop staff and colleagues.
- When you would say it
- Entering an office, leaving a room, ending a phone call politely.
- Worth knowing
- Knock, then say 失礼します as you enter and again as you leave.