Hanamaruhanamaru

おかえり

welcome home

okaeri

JLPT
N2
Frequency
#31,379

In a sentence

おかえりwelcome homeきょう今日todayどうhowだったwas

Welcome home, how was today?

How it works

おかえり (welcome home) is the set greeting you say to someone coming home. (topic) raises 今日きょう (today) as the topic — “as for today…”. どう (how) asks “how”, and だった (was) is the casual past of the copula, so the whole thing means a relaxed “how was it?”