How would you apologise for not inviting someone to an event?


In English I would say something along the line of 'Sorry! I forgot to invite
you to the party'. This would be in conversation to a friend. How would this
translate to Japanese?

Edit (First post to this site sorry!): My first ideas would be along the line
of すみません、私は招待しにわすれました。Through looking in my 'Genki' textbook, this verb
conjugation is mainly used for movement, not for the purpose I am using it
for. Please could someone explain to me - if it is incorrect - why it is so?




As with many translations in Japanese there are numerous ways to do this:

Written way with "you" specified ( but we don't speak this way ):

> パーティーにあなたを招待していないのが残念です

Leaving off "You":

> パーティーに招待していないのが残念です

Here, we have used 残念 ( zan nen - too bad or unfortunate )

In the follow we use ごめん なさい ( gomen nasai which is more like "sorry" ):

> パーティーに招待するのを忘れたのがごめんなさい

Please forgive me because I forgot to invite (you) to the party

> パーティーに招待するのを忘れたので許してください

Very informal among friends ( forgot to invite thing is no good ):

> 招待するのを忘れたのは良くない

