帰ります（かえります、kaerimasu）
- to return home
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帰ります (かえります, romaji: kaerimasu) means "to return home" in Japanese. It is a N5 Low-level Verb (group 1) word.
| Meaning: | to return home |
| Level: | N5 Low |
| Lexical Category: | Verb (group 1) (五段動詞) |
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Verb Conjugation
Basic Conjugation
Romaji：kaerimasu
Hiragana：かえります
Polite-form (ます形) | かえります帰ります。return home. |
Dict-form (辞書形) | 帰るreturn home |
Connect-form (て形) | 帰って + <Verb> |
Not-form (ない形) | 帰らないnot return home |
Advanced Conjugation
Past-form (た形) | 帰ったreturn homed |
Terminal-form (終止形) | 帰る。return home. |
If-form (仮定形) | 帰ればif return home |
Let's-form (意志形) | 帰ろう !let's return home |
Command-form (命令形) | 帰れ !return home ! |
AI Explanation
The Japanese verb 帰ります (かえります, kaerimasu) means "to go home," "to return," or "to come back." It implies a movement back to a place of origin, a place of residence, or a place where one belongs. It's a fundamental verb used to describe the action of returning.
⚫︎私は家に帰ります。 Translation: I go home. ⚫︎明日は大阪に帰ります。 Translation: I will return to Osaka tomorrow. ⚫︎もう帰りますか？ Translation: Are you going home already?
⚫︎This verb is used when you are talking about going back to your home, a particular place, or the place you started from. ⚫︎It can be used in various tenses: present/future (帰ります), past (帰りました, kaerimashita - returned), and present continuous (帰っています, kaetteimasu - is returning/has returned). ⚫︎It's essential to specify the destination or the place you are returning to, often using the particle に (ni) or へ (e). ⚫︎When you use it, you're usually moving from a place where you currently are.
⚫︎The word is typically written in hiragana as かえります. ⚫︎The kanji form is 帰ります. ⚫︎The okurigana (hiragana attached to the kanji) is "ります". ⚫︎Variations can be observed depending on the conjugation. For example, the polite form in present tense is 帰ります. The plain form is 帰る (kaeru).
There aren't exact one-to-one synonyms, but words that express a similar concept include: ⚫︎戻ります (modorimasu): to return (to a place) ⚫︎帰宅します (kitaku shimasu): to go home (formal) ⚫︎戻る (modoru): to go back
⚫︎行きます (ikimasu): to go ⚫︎来ます (kimasu): to come ⚫︎出ます (demasu): to leave, to depart
私は毎日、仕事が終わったらすぐに家に帰ります。 ・Translation: I go home immediately after work every day. ・Explanation: This sentence describes a daily routine of returning home after finishing work, using the plain form to indicate present habit.
明日は、午後5時に帰ります。 ・Translation: I will go home at 5 PM tomorrow. ・Explanation: This sentence uses 帰ります to indicate a planned action in the future.
The verb 帰ります is derived from the verb stem 帰 (kae-), which means "to return" or "to go back," and the polite suffix ます (-masu). The kanji 帰 itself is composed of two parts: a radical meaning "woman" and a phonetic component suggesting "to face in the same direction." This implies the idea of returning to a place, presumably home where the family awaits.