A day with the family

The set phrases family members say every day — leaving the house in the morning, coming home at night, and everything in between.

1. おはよう。朝あさごはん、できてるよ。

   Morning. Breakfast's ready.

   Family members just say 「おはよう」 to each other; 「ございます」 is for people outside the family, and 「できてるよ」 is the contracted form of 「できているよ」.

2. もう八時はちじ？行いかなくちゃ。

   Eight already? I've gotta go.

   「なくちゃ」is the colloquial contraction of 「なければ」, and the second half 「いけない」is usually dropped entirely — one word on its own means "I've gotta...".

3. いってきます！

   I'm off!

   A set phrase for leaving the house, literally “I'll go and come back”; the next sentence is its set reply.

4. いってらっしゃい。気きをつけてね。

   Take care! Be safe out there.

   The standard reply when seeing someone off; the 「ね」 in 「気をつけてね」 carries a tone of gentle urging.

5. ただいま。

   I'm home!

   The set phrase for when you come home; people who live alone often say it to themselves as well.

6. おかえり。今日きょうどうだった？

   Welcome back. How was your day?

   「おかえり」 is the shortened family version of 「おかえりなさい」; 「今日どうだった？」 is the all-purpose line for welcoming family home.

Around dinnertime, a mother calls her son to the table, checks that he has washed his hands, and asks him to take out the trash the next morning.

1. Mom

   ご飯はんだよ。テレビ消けして。

   Dinner's ready. Turn off the TV.

   「ご飯だよ」 is the call to dinner; 「消して」 is 「消してください」 with ください dropped, the family version of a request.
2. son

   はーい。今いま行いく。

   Coming! Be right there.

   The drawn-out 「はーい」 is the household way of answering; 「今行く」 leaves out ます, the norm when speaking to family.
3. Mom

   手て、洗あらった？

   Did you wash your hands?

   The particle 「を」 is dropped as usual; plain past + rising intonation makes this a “did you do it?” question confirming the action was completed.
4. son

   洗あらったよ。いただきます。

   I washed them. Thanks for the food.

   「いただきます」 is the set phrase for starting a meal; it literally means "receiving" rather than a declaration of "I'm going to eat," and the counterpart said after finishing is 「ごちそうさま（でした）」.
5. Mom

   明日あした、ゴミの日ひだから、朝あさ出だしてね。

   Tomorrow's trash day, so take it out in the morning, okay?

   「〜てね」 is a soft request used between family members; 「ゴミの日」 means garbage collection day, with the day of the week set by trash category, a word you'll hear all the time in Japanese households.
6. son

   はいはい、分わかった。

   Yeah, yeah, got it.

   Saying 「はい」 twice in a row gives 「はいはい」 a slightly perfunctory tone, so it's only for use with family; answering this way to anyone outside the family would come across as rude.