- Poor thing!
Yumiko: "I've lost my job and my boyfriend has left me."
Kazumi: "You poor thing!"
- Poor him/her/you
Masakazu: "My neighbour is quarantined in hospital with meningitis."
Tadashi: "Poor him!"
- Pitiful
Look at those homeless people sleeping in the station; it's pitiful!
かわいそうに
- I feel sorry for (person)
"I feel sorry for Tomomi; her husband is a chain smoker and refuses to quit."
"I feel sorry for the people living near the damaged nuclear power station."
- I pity (person)
"I pity the person who cleans the toilets at the beer festival.
"I pity the innocent people caught up in the war."
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