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回娘家

/ huí niáng jiā /
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Collocation

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要回娘家
2
想回娘家
3
没有回娘家
4
经常回娘家
5
……回娘家

Definition

回娘家

Literally means:

visit their parental home

Actually means:

It literally means that a married woman visits her parents' home, and figuratively means that a person visits the place or unit where he or she used to work, live or study. It sounds affectionate and homelike.

出嫁的女儿回到自己的父母家。比喻回到曾经工作、学习或生活过的地方或单位。含亲切的意味。

Example

Used as predicate, and can have other words in between. (作谓语,中间可插入别的词语)
1
Yáomíng
姚明
cóng
měiguó
美国
huí
niángjia
娘家
le
  
,
zhè
huí
yíngjiē
迎接
de
shì
shànghǎi
上海
bāng
tiě
menr  
哥们儿
  

Yao Ming returned to his mother's house from the United States, and it was the iron brothers in Shanghai who greeted him this time.

2
Jīnnián
今年
chūnjié
春节
yīn
gōng
chūchāi
出差
huí
le
niángjia
娘家
  
,
zhǐhǎo
只好
ràng
zhàngfu
丈夫
dài
zhāo
ér
儿女
xiàng
去向
父母
bàinián
拜年
  

This Spring Festival because she can not return to her mother's house on business, had to let her husband take their children to their parents to pay New Year's greetings.

3
Xiàoqìng
校庆
tiān
  
,
men
我们
xíng
一行
shí
十几
rén
huí
le
niángjia
娘家
  
,
shòudào
受到
xiào
母校
shīshēng
师生
de
liè
热烈
huānyíng
欢迎
  

On the day of the school celebration, a dozen of us returned to our mother's house and received a warm welcome from the teachers and students of our alma mater.