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rentrer

to go home

verb rahn-TREH Common
Travel & Places Movement

Also means

to come back

Usage Note

Rentrer is the verb for returning home or heading back inside, set apart from plain entrer by that sense of coming back. Its noun la rentrée names the great September moment when the whole country goes back to school and work after the summer break.

Examples

"Je rentre à la maison."

Natural Translation

I'm going home.

Literal Translation

I return to the house.

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