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Noun に 帰ります

Go back to your own base (home, hometown, country): 'to return home'.

At a glance

[Place] に 帰かえります means "go back to [place]". It is used for a place you belong to: your home, hometown, home country, or the place you are staying.

[Place] に かえります。

来週らいしゅう国くにに帰かえります。 I'm going back to my country next week.


How to form it

The place takes に. 帰かえる ends in る, but it is a う-verb, so it conjugates like this:

Form Polite Casual
Present 帰かえります 帰かえる
Negative 帰かえりません 帰かえらない
Past 帰かえりました 帰かえった
Past negative 帰かえりませんでした 帰かえらなかった
て-form 帰かえって 帰かえって

The casual negative is 帰かえらない, not 帰かえない.

Examples

  • 夏休なつやすみになったら、国くにに帰かえります。

    When summer vacation starts, I'll go back to my country.

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