regretter

to regret; to miss; to wish something had not happened or occurred

“Je regrette de t'avoir parlé ainsi tout à l'heure.” — I regret having spoken to you like that earlier.

Inherited from Middle French regretter, regreter, from Old French regreter (“to lament”), from re- (“intensive prefix”) + greter (“to weep”), from Frankish *grātan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (“to weep”) and Frankish *greotan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrew- (“to weep, be sad”). Akin to Old High German grāzan (“to cry”), Old English grǣtan (“to weep, greet”), Old English grēotan (“to weep, lament”), Ol