JapanLingo

帰宅きたく

kitaku

returning home

N3

How to remember this word

Tie 帰宅 to one concrete moment from your own week in Japan where “returning home” came up — a word anchored to a real scene sticks far better than a definition.

Example sentences

Example 1

kinou wa juuji ni kitaku shimashita.

I got home at ten yesterday.

Example 2

zangyou ga tsuzuite, kitaku ga osoku naru koto ga ooi desu.

Overtime keeps going on, so I often get home late.