returnees
帰国者
解説 Definition
母国や元の居住地に帰ってきた人々。帰還者。
Returnees are people who come back to their home country, hometown, school, or workplace after living or staying somewhere else. The word is often used in discussions of education, work, or migration. It usually refers to a group rather than one person.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
return が分かれば核はそのまま「戻る」。さらに re- は「再び」、-ee は employee / interviewee のように「その動作に関わる人」を表すことが多いので、returnee で「戻ってきた人」と組み立てて覚えるとよい。今回は複数形だから returnees。語感としては単なる帰宅ではなく、海外滞在・避難・移住・戦地などから母国や元の場所へ戻った人々に使われやすい。return は行為、returnee は人、returned は状態や形容詞っぽい用法、と切り分けると混同しにくい。
Start with return: the core idea is still "come back." The prefix re- often means "again," and -ee often means a person involved in an action, like employee or interviewee. So a returnee is a person who has come back, and returnees is just the plural.
例文
The returnees struggled to adapt to a homeland they barely recognized.
帰国者たちは、ほとんど見覚えのない祖国に適応するのに苦労した。
A support center was established to help returnees find employment.
帰国者の就職を支援するためにサポートセンターが設立された。
Many of the returnees had spent decades living abroad before coming home.
帰国者の多くは、帰国する前に何十年も海外で暮らしていた。
returnees の類義語・関連語
returnees の語源・成り立ち Etymology
re-（再び）＋turn（向きを変える）＋-ee（～される人）の構成。turnは古フランス語torner（回転する）からで、ラテン語tornare（旋盤で削る）が起源。-eeはフランス語の過去分詞語尾で、employee（雇われる人）と同じ形。帰還した人の意。
Returnees is built from return + -ee. Return comes through Old French tourner or retourner, from Latin tornare, originally "to turn on a lathe," and later more generally "to turn." The suffix -ee, from French patterns, marks the person affected by an action, so returnees developed as a word for people who have come back. Related English words include turn, return, and employee.
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