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I am currently doing some exercises for my Japanese class, but they are all in
hiragana, which is sometimes irritating, but in this sentence I fail to see
the meaning and thus unable to pick the suitable answer, 3:

ゆうびんきょくに ＿＿ かえります。

Available answers are :

1) やんで 2) よんで 3) よって 4) やって

I thought ~による was used in a sense similar to "According to..." but I really
don't see how this fits within the sentence.

Is this another usage of the above form ?

A different verb ? I really think it is more of a suite of actions, "Do
something at the post office and come back". I really wish I had a kanji there
to help me out... As a bonus, why do textbooks often contain no kanjis and
only hiragana ? This seems more confusing that anything else to me.

Thanks !
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Usage of よって in this sentence
I think this よって comes from the verb 寄る{よる} which means "to visit, to drop by"
in this case. Your sentence thus means:

> ゆうびんきょくによってかえります。  
>  I'll drop by the post office and come back.

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～によると is used as "according to" (see [よると or よれば？ Which one is "according
to"?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/15940/%E3%82%88%E3%82%8B%E3%81%A8-or-%E3%82%88%E3%82%8C%E3%81%B0%EF%BC%9F-which-
one-is-according-to/15941#15941)).

～によって can mean "by way/method", "depending on", "because of" (see [What´s the
difference between による, により and
によって?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/3649/what%C2%B4s-the-
difference-
between-%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8B-%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8A-and%E3%80%80%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A6)).

Neither of them can be applied to "post office" in this sentence though.
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