戻らなくて

not return, not go back

→ 戻る

戻ら return, go back + なくて Negative connective (te-form)

verb Rare #38,214

not return, not go back Negative て-form, used to connect this clause to what follows or to give a reason.

JA: 家に戻らなくて、母が心配しています。

EN: My mother is worried because I haven't returned home.

Conjugation of 戻る

Present

Past

Imperative

Conditional

Indicative

Optative

Potential

Indicative past

Desiderative

Indicative present

Necessitative

I have to go back.

If I marry an American, I won't have to go back.

— ANORA アノーラ (2024)

You don't have to go back to the station anymore.

— アメリカン・ギャングスター (2007)

—You’ll be in trouble if you don’t go back to get it. You mustn’t go back the same way here.

— ストーカー (1979)