帰(かえ)る

かえる

verb (godan)

to return, to go home

1. to return home, to go back

To go back to one's home, country, or original location. The destination is typically a place one belongs to or comes from.

What time do you go home?

I will return to my country next year.

もう帰(かえ)りたいです。

I want to go home now.

I'll go home right after work ends.

The trains had stopped, so I went home by taxi.

TRANSITIVITY: 自動詞(じどうし) (intransitive). No pair verb. Pattern: Xに帰(かえ)る (return to X).

ASPECT: ている indicates resulting state. 帰(かえ)っている = 'has returned (and is there now).'

COMMON PATTERNS:

Godan verb despite ending in る. Different from 戻(もど)る (return to previous state) and 変(か)える (to change - ichidan).

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