遺憾ながら、２月２７日のお約束を守ることが出来ません。

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English Translation

I regret to inform you that I will be unable to keep our appointment for February 27.

Furigana

遺憾(いかん)ながら、２月(にがつ)２７日(にち)のお約束(やくそく)を守(まも)ることが出来(でき)ません。

Romanji

Ikan nagara, nigatsu ni nana nichi no o yakusoku o mamoru koto ga dekimasen.

Words

遺憾 (いかん)

regrettable; unsatisfactory

乍ら (ながら)

while; during; as; while; although; though; despite; in spite of; notwithstanding; all; both; as (e.g. "as always", "as long ago"); in (e.g. "in tears")

二月 (にがつ)

February; second month of the lunar calendar

二 (に、ふた、ふ、ふう)

two

七 (しち、なな、な)

seven; hepta-

日 (にち)

Sunday; day (of the month); counter for days; Japan

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

御 (お、おん)

honorific/polite/humble prefix

約束 (やくそく)

promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date; convention; rule; destiny; fate

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

守る (まもる)

to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe; to obey; to follow

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant