I will leave from your house after five minutes

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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  1. I leave after five minutes from here.
  2. I will leave after five minutes from here.
  3. I leave from your house after five minutes.
  4. I will leave from your house after five minutes.
  5. I will leave from your house after in five minutes.
    Please correct and comment.
    Thanks.
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  1. I leave from here in five minutes.
  2. I will leave from here in five minutes.
  3. I leave your house in five minutesā€™ time.
  4. I will leave your house in five minutesā€™ time.
  5. I will leave your house after five minutes. (This is NOT five minutes from this point, but from another time specified within the wider conversation, unlike the sentences above.)
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  1. I will leave your house after five minutes now.
  2. I will leave after five minutes from now.
  3. I will leave from here in five minutes from now.
    Please correct and comment.
    Thanks.
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1. I will leave your house after five minutes now.
2. I will leave five minutes from now.
3. I will leave here in five minutes from now.

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Beeesneees,

  1. I will leave your house after five minutes.
  2. I will leave your house after five minutes now.
  3. I will leave (X: after) five minutes from now.
    According to you #1 is OK, while #2 and #3 are wrong, because ā€˜afterā€™ and ā€˜nowā€™ are used.
    Could you enlighten me how #2 and #3 are wrong?
    Thanks for your guidance.
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Also possible:
Iā€™ll be leaving your house in five minutesā€™ time.
Iā€™m leaving your house in five minutesā€™ time.

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leave

The definition lists ā€œto omit; to let aloneā€, but there are no example sentences.

I do not like hot peppers so I leave them out of the recipe.
He is a messy person who leaves his dirty clothes on the floor.
If you do not hurry you will be left behind.

Leave me alone! - This does not mean to physically leave. It means to stop bothering or harassing the person.

Leave me to it - This means to allow the speaker to complete a task.

In labor:
Sick leave - time off work because of illness or other medical reasons
Leave of absence - Prearranged extended time off of work. In the US this is typically much longer than vacation or sick leave.
Paid leave - any time off work that continues to pay the employee. This includes vacation and sick leave.

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Wow, thank you so much for your contributions, Iā€™ve added all your examples and next we weā€™ll improve the content management system so we will also be able to edit the entries. (As of now, I can only add definitions to the verb ā€˜leaveā€™.)