For those who have learned a few fixed expressions of Japanese, you might have learned that most phrases have a formal and informal form. “Okaeri” is a abbreviation derived from the sentence お帰りなさい (okaerinasai). The fixed response for “tadaima” is おかえり (okaeri), and it can also be written as お帰り with kanji.
Here’s the examples in formal form (-masu form). This is also one of the frequently used verbs in everyday life. 帰りました (kaerimashita) is the formal past tense of “kaeru”. 帰る (kaeru) is a dictionary form of this segment, meaning “to go back” or “to return somewhere”. It is also important for you to know that, most of the time, the expression of “tadaima” is used in formal occasions, such as in a business phone call, when you are talking to your client or customer, and so on. In the examples above, we can see that by using “tadaima” we can express “somebody is doing something at the moment”. ただいま仕事中です。 I am just in the middle of work.彼は ただいま電話中です。 He is on the phone at the moment.While “tadaima” is usually written in hiragana as ただいま, it also can be written in kanji as 只今.Īs mentioned in the first part that the literal meaning of “tadaima” can be “just now” or “at this moment”, below are three examples using “tadaima”. Let’s break the whole sentence into two segments, “tadaima” and “kaerimashita”, to take a deeper look and have a better understanding of this phrase! ただいま (tadaima) “Tadaima” is emphasized since people want to convey the message that they are “just” coming back to the place.
In daily life, people only say “tadaima” instead of finishing the rest of the sentence. How come people say “just now” when coming back?Īctually, this phrase is abbreviated from a longer sentence,『ただいま帰りました (tadaima kaerimashita)』, which the literal translation of this sentence can be “I am just back here now”. Maybe you are getting a little bit confused by now. The literal translation of “tadaima” is “just now” or “at this moment”, and you can say “tadaima” when you are back home.
The magic of ”Tadaima“ with different intonation.
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