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sorrow
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Žiaľ, nestihol som jeho prejav.
Unfortunately I was not in time for his speech.
Žiaľ, obchod bol zavretý.
Unfortunately the store was closed.
Žiaľ, nedostali sme vašu odpoveď.
Unfortunately we didn't receive your answer.
Žiaľ, nehovorím mongolsky.
Unfortunately, I don't speak Mongolian.
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Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).
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