Illustration: A jogger steps back through their own garden gate toward the house, reaching for a forgotten water bottle on the entrance bench. A clear trail of fresh muddy shoe prints leads outward from that same doorstep to the gate, matching the mud on their running shoes.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

戻もどる

modoru

to return, to go back

Example sentences

  1. 戻もどるぞ。

    I’ll be back.

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  2. すぐ戻もどる。

    I will be back soon.

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  3. やってしまったことは元もとに戻もどらない。

    What is done cannot be undone.

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Kanji in 戻

  • 戻re-; returnOnレイKunもどす・もどる

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