sorry
adj.adj. the word you use to show you are sad or upset about something you did wrong. It can also show you feel sad for someone else's bad situation.
adj. feeling regret, compunction, or sorrow for a fault or misfortune. Often follows a linking verb and takes a prepositional phrase or a 'that' clause to specify the cause of the feeling.
I am sorry for being late to the meeting.
She felt sorry for her neighbor whose cat had gone missing during the storm.
The CEO issued a public statement saying he was deeply sorry for the data breach, though critics argued his apology lacked a concrete plan for restitution.
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic sairag, from Proto-Germanic sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. By surface analysis, sor(e) + -y. Unrelated to sorrow despite the similarity in form and meaning.
Typically follows a linking verb like 'be' or 'feel'; commonly pairs with the preposition 'for' or 'about'.
I am sorry of the mistakeI am sorry for the mistakeThe adjective 'sorry' takes the preposition 'for' or 'about', not 'of'.