残念なことに、あなたの招待に応じられない。

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English Translation

To my regret I cannot accept your invitation.

Furigana

残念(ざんねん)なことに、あなたの招待(しょうたい)に応(おう)じられない。

Romanji

Zannenna koto ni, anata no shōtai ni ōjirarenai.

Words

残念 (ざんねん)

deplorable; bad luck; regret; disappointment

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

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

貴方 (あなた)

you (referring to someone of equal or lower status); dear (what a wife calls a husband)

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

招待 (しょうたい、しょうだい)

invitation

応じる (おうじる)

to respond; to satisfy; to accept; to comply with; to apply for