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N5

Noun に 戻ります

Expresses the action of returning to a previous state, place, or condition.

At a glance

Noun に 戻もどります means "to go back to [noun]". It is used for returning to a place you were at before, and also to an earlier topic or state.

[Noun] に 戻ります。

これから教室きょうしつに戻もどります。 I'm going back to the classroom now.


How to form it

The place you go back to takes に. 戻もどる is an う-verb and conjugates like this:

Form Polite Casual
Present 戻もどります 戻もどる
Negative 戻もどりません 戻もどらない
Past 戻もどりました 戻もどった
Past negative 戻もどりませんでした 戻もどらなかった
て-form 戻もどって 戻もどって

For places, へ can be used instead of に: 教室きょうしつへ戻もどります.

Examples

  • 夏休なつやすみが終おわったら、学校がっこうに戻もどります。

    When summer vacation ends, I will go back to school.

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