お帰かえり

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Common wordJLPTN2Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

1

Honorific noun for someone's return, often used in set phrases like お帰りになる or お帰りです.

は

明日あした

お

帰かえ

り

に

なり

ます

。

The company president will return tomorrow (honorific).

お帰かえりの際さいにお立たち寄よりください。

Please drop by on your way back (honorific).

2

welcome home; welcome back

abbreviation

Abbreviation of お帰りなさい, used as a casual interjection when someone returns home or to a familiar place.

〈人ひと〉がお帰かえりになるfor someone (honorific) to return
社しゃ長ちょうがもうすぐお帰かえりになります。
The president will be returning shortly.
お帰かえり、〈人ひと〉casual welcome-home greeting to someone by name
お帰かえり、太た郎ろう！お腹なかすいたでしょ。
Welcome home, Taro! You must be hungry.
〈人ひと〉のお帰かえりを待まつto wait for someone's (honorific) return
母ははは父ちちのお帰かえりを待まっていた。
My mother was waiting for my father to come home.
お帰かえりが〈形けい容よう詞し〉someone's return is (early/late, etc.)
今日きょうはお帰かえりが遅おそいですね。
You're getting home late today.

帰かえりN4sense 1
帰り is the plain, everyday noun for 'return', while お帰り adds the honorific お- and is used to refer politely to someone else's return.
帰き宅たくN3sense 1
帰宅 is a neutral, often written term meaning 'returning home' used with する, whereas お帰り is the honorific noun form used to talk about someone's coming back.

お出でかけN4sense 1
お出かけ is the honorific noun for someone going out, the direct opposite of お帰り, the honorific noun for someone coming back.

お帰かえりなさいpolite 丁寧語N5sense 2
お帰りなさい is the full, standard polite greeting for welcoming someone home, while お帰り is its casual, shortened form.

Honorific prefix お + 帰り (return), the noun form of 帰る (to return). The interjection is a shortening of お帰りなさい.