催促がましくて恐縮ですが、先日お貸ししたお金を返していただけませんか。

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English Translation

I'm afraid this sounds like a demand, but could you return the money I lent you the other day?

Furigana

催促(さいそく)がましくて恐縮(きょうしゅく)ですが、先日(せんじつ)お貸(か)ししたお金(かね)を返(かえ)していただけませんか。

Romanji

Saisoku ga mashikute kyōshuku desu ga, senjitsu o kashi shita okane o kaeshiteita dakemasen ka.

Words

催促 (さいそく)

pressing; demanding; urging; demand; request; claim

が (が)

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

先ず (まず)

first (of all); to start with; about; almost; anyway; well; now; hardly (with neg. verb)

恐縮 (きょうしゅく)

feeling obliged; being grateful; being thankful; being sorry; being ashamed; shrinking back in fear

です (です)

be; is

先日 (せんじつ)

the other day; a few days ago

御 (お、おん)

honorific/polite/humble prefix

貸し (かし)

loan; lending; favor; favour; debt; obligation; creditor; method of lending; credit side

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

お金 (おかね)

money

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.

返す (かえす)

to return (something); to restore; to put back; to turn over; to turn upside down; to overturn; to pay back; to retaliate; to reciprocate; to repeat ...; to do ... back

丈 (だけ)

only; just; merely; simply; no more than; nothing but; alone; as (e.g. as soon as, as much as); worth

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way