How to say "On mondays I get home at 5pm"


Here is my attempt, wanted to see if this is correct, I'm trying to write a
practice presentation for my class on Wednesday I'm a first year Japanese
student.

> Watashi no Getsuyōbi no gogo goji ni tadaima desu.




I'm not a professional teacher but please let me try.

I can manage to understand what you mean by your sentence but we (native
Japanese speakers) usually use sentences like the following

> Watashi wa Getsuyōbi wa gogo goji ni ie ni kaeri masu.

"kaeri masu" is to go back (home = "ie"). We usually omit "watashi wa" and
just say

> Getsuyōbi wa gogo goji ni ie ni kaeri masu.

Depending on the context, "ie ni" can be omitted.

> Getsuyōbi wa gogo goji ni kaeri masu.

Notice that, from none of the above sentences, we can't tell that 5:00pm is
the time of arrival or departure. If you want to make clear that it is the
arrival time, I think you need to provide the context. For example, if you are
arranging weekly Skype meetings or something like that, the important
information for the partner of your conversation is the fact that you are at
home at that time. In that case, you can say

> Getsuyōbi wa gogo goji ni wa ie ni (kaette) imasu,

which means that "On Mondays, I'm home at 5pm at the latest."




I'm not a professional teacher but please let me try.

I can manage to understand what you mean by your sentence but we (native
Japanese speakers) usually use sentences like the following

> Watashi wa Getsuyōbi wa gogo goji ni ie ni kaeri masu.

"kaeri masu" is to go back (home = "ie"). We usually omit "watashi wa" and
just say

> Getsuyōbi wa gogo goji ni ie ni kaeri masu.

Depending on the context, "ie ni" can be omitted.

> Getsuyōbi wa gogo goji ni kaeri masu.

Notice that, from none of the above sentences, we can't tell that 5:00pm is
the time of arrival or departure. If you want to make clear that it is the
arrival time, I think you need to provide the context. For example, if you are
arranging weekly Skype meetings or something like that, the important
information for the partner of your conversation is the fact that you are at
home at that time. In that case, you can say

> Getsuyōbi wa gogo goji ni wa ie ni (kaette) imasu,

which means that "On Mondays, I'm home at 5pm at the latest."

