quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent

/[kɑ̃ lə ʃa ɛ paʁ.ti le su.ʁi dɑ̃s]/ phrase

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German

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quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent is aGermanphrase. It means: bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zus... Pronounced [kɑ̃ lə ʃa ɛ paʁ.ti le su.ʁi dɑ̃s].

Key facts for quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent
PropertyValue
Headwordquand le chat est parti, les souris dansent
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[kɑ̃ lə ʃa ɛ paʁ.ti le su.ʁi dɑ̃s]
Letters43
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent is 43 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɑ̃ lə ʃa ɛ paʁ.ti le su.ʁi dɑ̃s]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zus...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent, spelled Q-U-A-N-D- -L-E- -C-H-A-T- -E-S-T- -P-A-R-T-I-,- -L-E-S- -S-O-U-R-I-S- -D-A-N-S-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zustehen (wortwörtlich: „wenn die Katze weg ist, tanzen die Mäuse“)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent"?
"quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent" is spelled Q-U-A-N-D- -L-E- -C-H-A-T- -E-S-T- -P-A-R-T-I-,- -L-E-S- -S-O-U-R-I-S- -D-A-N-S-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is [kɑ̃ lə ʃa ɛ paʁ.ti le su.ʁi dɑ̃s].
What does "quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent" mean?
As a phrase, "quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent" means: bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zus...
How do you pronounce "quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent" is [kɑ̃ lə ʃa ɛ paʁ.ti le su.ʁi dɑ̃s]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.