帰る expresses returning home. The examples use polite everyday Japanese.

The idea

帰る is a godan verb. 帰ります is polite non-past, 帰りません negative, 帰りました past and 帰って the て-form. に marks the destination; へ can also mark the direction of return, and で marks transport. In these uses the verb is intransitive.

Patterns to compare
Dictionary formPolite non-pastPolite negativePolite pastて-formPlain negative
帰かえる帰かえります帰かえりません帰かえりました帰かえって帰かえらない

Examples

  • 毎日まいにち、六時ろくじに家いえに帰かえります。I return home at six every day.
  • 仕事しごとのあと、電車でんしゃで帰かえります。I go home by train after work.
  • 昨日きのうは早はやく帰かえりました。Yesterday I went home early.
  • 今日きょうはまだ帰かえりません。I am not going home yet today.
  • 日曜日にちようびに国くにへ帰かえります。I will return to my home country on Sunday.
  • 家いえに帰かえって、晩ばんご飯はんを食たべます。I go home and eat dinner.

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Watch out

帰る is godan despite ending in る: its て-form is 帰って, unlike ichidan 起きて.

Try it yourself

  1. Choose the particle in brackets. 家いえ＿帰かえります。（に／を）

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    に

    に is correct. に marks the destination; へ can also mark the direction of return, and で marks transport.

  2. Complete the ending to make the verb’s て-form. 家いえに帰かえ＿、晩ばんご飯はんを食たべます。（帰かえる→て）

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    って

    って completes 帰って. 帰って is the て-form of 帰る; it joins actions or precedes ください in a request.

  3. Complete the ending to make the polite past. 昨日きのう、早はやく帰かえ＿。（帰かえる→ました）

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    りました

    りました completes 帰りました. 帰りました is the polite past of 帰る; 昨日 places the event yesterday.

Use it today

Adapt an example with 帰る to your own life, then put it into the polite past. Check the particle and verb form.