Sorry, I got lost in Japanese 🇯🇵

Sentence info.

– すみません, わたし は みち に まよって しまいました
– Romanized: Sumimasen, watashi wa michi ni mayotte shimaimaa.
– Breakdown:
– すみません (Sumimasen): "Excuse me" or "I'm sorry"
– わたし (watashi): "I" or "me" (formal)
– は (wa): Topic marker
– みち (michi): "Road" or "way"
– に (ni): Directional particle ("to" or "in")
– まよって (mayotte): Te-form of 迷う (mayou), meaning "to get lost"
– しまいました (shimaimaa): Polite form to indicate regret or completion

Alternate Ways to Say "Sorry, I got lost":

1. すみません, みち に まよいました
– Romanized: Sumimasen, michi ni mayoimaa.
– Simpler form without using しまう for added emphasis

2. ごめんなさい, みち に まよっちゃった
– Romanized: Gomennasai, michi ni mayocchatta.
– Less formal with ごめんなさい (Gomennasai) for "sorry" and casual past form

3. すみません, みち が わかりません
– Romanized: Sumimasen, michi ga wakarimasen.
– Directly saying "I don't understand the way"

4. すみません, みち を まちがえました
– Romanized: Sumimasen, michi o machigaemaa.
– Saying "I took the wrong way"

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Sentence meaning

みち (道) = road/ way

まよって (迷って) = "to lose one's way" or “to get lost”

しまう = “to finish”
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(past form)———⟩ しまいました

Literally= "I ended up getting lost."

Source/ reference: https://www.japanesepod101.com/lesson/mustknow-japanese-sentence-structures-36-expressing-regret

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