I will be leaving soon


It is almost the end of the day. So I want to say to my office mate that I
will be leaving soon. Is it natural to say:

> そろそろ出ています。

or :

> そろそろ出発しています。




Unfortunately neither of your examples are very natural.

There are already a couple fixed expressions. 帰る (go home) or 失礼する (take my
leave). You wouldn't use progressive forms for either. While in English you
can say 'I'll be going home now', that doesn't work for Japanese. 'I go home
now' is more natural.

出発する means to depart for somewhere, usually far off, that is not your home. 出る
would indicate that you're going out, but you might be back.

「（もう）そろそろ失礼します」 or 「（もう）そろそろ帰ります」 would be appropriate.




Unfortunately neither of your examples are very natural.

There are already a couple fixed expressions. 帰る (go home) or 失礼する (take my
leave). You wouldn't use progressive forms for either. While in English you
can say 'I'll be going home now', that doesn't work for Japanese. 'I go home
now' is more natural.

出発する means to depart for somewhere, usually far off, that is not your home. 出る
would indicate that you're going out, but you might be back.

「（もう）そろそろ失礼します」 or 「（もう）そろそろ帰ります」 would be appropriate.

