[Grammar] Can I beg your pardon?

[wotcha]

We say “Can I beg a pardon of you?“

And I wonder if “Can I beg you a pardon“ is grammatical.

 

[bhaisahab]

We say “Can I beg a pardon of you?“ No.

And I wonder if “Can I beg you a pardon“ is grammatical. It's grammatical, but it's meaningless.

Bhai.

 

[BobK]

Perhaps wotcha means 'Can I ask a favour of you?' - even then, though acceptable, it sounds pretty mannered. It'd be more natural to ask 'Will you do me a favour?' or - to be extra polite 'Would it be all right if I asked you to do me a favour? [Just say No if you'd rather not; I know I shouldn't really ask.]'

If you use 'pardon' it's either the polite/conventional apology for doing something socially wrong, or just a request for repetition: '[Beg] pardon - I didn't quite catch that'. (That's apart from the case where someone does beg for a pardon, because, for example, they don't want their head chopped off!)

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