désolé d'avoir manqué ton appel
To say sorry I missed your call in French, use désolé d'avoir manqué ton appel.
Which one should you use?
Use ton appel with friends and family and votre appel with a client, a stranger or a superior. Désolé(e) d'avoir raté ton appel is a more casual way to say the same thing.
How does it change in a sentence?
A woman speaking adds an e to the first word. To be formal or to speak to more than one person, replace ton with votre: désolé d'avoir manqué votre appel.
Did you know?
- In French, the word appel is used for both a telephone call and a legal appeal in court. This means the same word describes reaching out to a friend and challenging a judge's decision.
- Long before telephones, the root of appel described the physical act of shouting a name across a distance to get someone's attention.
- While manqué is standard, using the casual raté can imply a sense of failure or 'messing up'. It is similar to saying you 'blew it' by not answering the phone.
Examples in context
- Désolé(e) de ne pas avoir pu répondre à ton appel, j'apprécie ton message.Sorry I couldn't answer your call, I appreciate your message.
- Désolé d'avoir manqué ton appel, je n'avais plus de batterie.Sorry I missed your call, I had no more battery.
- Désolé d'avoir manqué ton appel hier.Sorry I missed your call yesterday.
- Je suis désolé d'avoir manqué ton appel ce matin.I am sorry I missed your call this morning.
- Désolé d'avoir manqué ton appel, j'étais en réunion.Sorry I missed your call, I was in a meeting.
Example conversation
Chloé calls Hugo back after seeing a missed call.
- ChloéCoucou Hugo, désolé d'avoir manqué ton appel.Hi Hugo, sorry I missed your call.
- HugoCe n'est pas grave, Chloé.It's no big deal, Chloé.
- ChloéC'était important ?Was it important?
- HugoNon, je voulais juste discuter.No, I just wanted to chat.
