残念です。
Zannen desu.
That’s too bad.
- Word for word
- “It is regrettable.”
- Politeness: Polite
- です/ます style. The safe default with strangers, shop staff and colleagues.
- When you would say it
- Reacting to disappointing news.
- Worth knowing
- Add それ~は (that) at the front: それ~は残念です。