How to say "cottage" in Japanese

• コテージCommon
  nounThe direct loanword for 'cottage': a small, often detached house, typically a weekend or vacation home. This is usually the word you want when saying a cottage in the everyday English sense.
  そのコテージは、彼女かのじょと過すごした楽たのしかった頃ころを私に思い出おもいださせた。↗

  The cottage reminded me of the happy times I had spent with her.
• 零細れいさいCommon
  na-adjectiveCovers 'cottage' only in the set phrase sense of cottage industry, describing small-scale, tiny businesses. As a noun on its own it means something insignificant or paltry, not a dwelling, so it is almost never the word for a cottage itself.
  零細れいさいなパン屋ぱんやはスーパーマーケットに圧倒あっとうされた。↗

  Mom-and-pop bakeries were overwhelmed by supermarkets.
• 在家ざいけCommon
  nounRefers to a home in the countryside, glossed as country home, farmhouse, or cottage. It is a formal literary term and not the ordinary way to refer to a cottage-style dwelling, so keep it to the rural-household nuance.

Use 「コテージ」 for a cottage as a small house or holiday dwelling; 零細 and 在家 relate to other senses — 零細 to cottage industry, 在家 to a country farmhouse — and are rarely what English 'cottage' alone means.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• コテージcottage
• 零細れいさいinsignificant
• 陋屋ろうおくcramped home
• 在家ざいけcountry home