帰路についてくれた translation


> **全員空気を読んで、立ち止まることなく帰路についてくれたのはありがたい判断だ。**

The speaker told his friends to return home first without him, since there was
something he has to do.

I'm confused about how to translate **帰路についてくれた**.

**帰路について** ( **帰路につく** ): to go home (head home/on the way home).

**くれた** ( **くれる** ): to let one have, to give.

Thank you in advance for your kind guidance.




> I'm confused about how to translate 帰路についてくれた.

Basically, the speaker is thanking the people for going home.

The problem with translating these kinds of Japanese phrases is that if you
try to translate everything in a Japanese text into some kind of English
equivalent, you end up with unnatural expressions. The person is already
thanking the people for going home with the arigatai, so the meaning of the
kureru in the above is already contained in whatever you used to translate
that into.




> I'm confused about how to translate 帰路についてくれた.

Basically, the speaker is thanking the people for going home.

The problem with translating these kinds of Japanese phrases is that if you
try to translate everything in a Japanese text into some kind of English
equivalent, you end up with unnatural expressions. The person is already
thanking the people for going home with the arigatai, so the meaning of the
kureru in the above is already contained in whatever you used to translate
that into.

