to refuse, to reject, to turn down / to announce in advance, especially to ask for permission

to propose / to suggest

proposal / suggestion

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

(polite) first-person singular pronoun: I, me

a personal or private matter / (by extension) selfishness

a personal or private matter / selfishness / privacy, secrecy / (women's speech, obsolete) a brother-in-law