How do you say welcome home in Italian?

How exactly do you say welcome home in Italian? What’s more appropriate to say depending on the relationship between you and the other person?

In this lesson, we will take a look at the different ways you can translate this sentence into Italian. Read on to learn them all!

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How do you say welcome home in Italian?

Singular: Benvenuto/a a casa!

Benvenuto a casa or benvenuta a casa are how you translate welcome home in Italian for addressing only one person at a time.

Benvenuto a casa
Welcome home (singular, informal, masculine)
Literally: Welcome to home

Benvenuta a casa
Welcome home (singular, informal, feminine)
Literally: Welcome to home

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All adjectives in Italian agree with the gender and the number of the noun. Since benvenuto, welcome, is an adjective here, it must follow the gender of the person you are talking to:

  • if you are addressing a man, say benvenuto
  • if you are addressing a woman, say benvenuta

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That said, this common sentence in Italian is made of three elements.

Benvenut/a
Welcome

A
Preposition meaning “to”

Casa
Home, house (there’s no difference in Italian!)

Benvenuto nella tua nuova casa, micio!
Welcome to your new home, kitty!

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Now, what do you have to say to say welcome home in Italian to groups of people? You will need to change the adjective ending so that it agrees with the second person plural pronoun. Let’s see what this form is in the next paragraph.


Plural: Benvenuti/e a casa!

Benvenuti a casa or benvenute a casa are how you translate welcome home in Italian for addressing more than one person at a time.

Benvenuti a casa
Welcome home (plural, informal, masculine)
Literally: Welcome to home

Benvenute a casa
Welcome home (plural, informal, feminine)
Literally: Welcome to home

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Italian has two kinds of “you”, unlike English. There’s a singular “you” and then there’s a plural “you”. If you are addressing a group, you will need to conjugate any verb or pronoun accordingly.

Yet again, you will have to change the article according to the gender of the people you are talking to:

  • if you are addressing some men or a mixed group of both men and women, say benvenuti
  • if you are addressing women only, say benvenute

Benvenute a casa, Grazia e Paola!
Welcome home, Grazia and Paola!

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Now, is there another way to say welcome home in Italian when you need to specifically greet someone that just came back from a long trip? Keep on reading to find out!


Bentornato/a! Bentornati/e!

While benvenuto and all its variant literally means ben venuto, “well come”, from the verb venire, “to come”, bentornato (and all its variants as well) literally means ben tornato, “well come back”. Tornare is an Italian verb that translates to the English verb “to come back”.

So, if you want to welcome your friends back after a long journey, it’s actually more common to greet them with a bentornato instead of a benvenuto, which you will more commonly use when people first come to visit you and your home.

As for, benvenuto a casa, there are four different variants depending on the number and gender of the people you are talking to.

Bentornato a casa
Welcome back home (singular, informal, masculine)
Literally: Welcome back to home

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Bentornata a casa
Welcome back home (singular, informal, feminine)
Literally: Welcome back to home

Bentornati a casa
Welcome back home (plural, informal, masculine)
Literally: Welcome back to home

Bentornate a casa
Welcome back home (plural, informal, feminine)
Literally: Welcome back to home

Bentornato a casa! Com’è andato il viaggio?
Welcome back home! How was your trip?

Of course, you can also simply say benvenuto! or bentornato, translating “welcome” and “welcome back”!

And that’s it, now you know how to say welcome home in Italian in all its forms!


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