quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato

/[…]/ phrase

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53 characters

Language

German

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quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato 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 […].

Key facts for quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato
PropertyValue
Headwordquando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters53
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato 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 quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato is 53 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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 quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato 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 quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato, spelled Q-U-A-N-D-O- -E-M- -C-A-S-A- -N-Ã-O- -E-S-T-Á- -O- -G-A-T-O-,- -À- -V-O-N-T-A-D-E- -F-I-C-A- -O- -R-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    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 nicht im Haus ist, treibt es die Maus nach Belieben“)

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato"?
"quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato" is spelled Q-U-A-N-D-O- -E-M- -C-A-S-A- -N-Ã-O- -E-S-T-Á- -O- -G-A-T-O-,- -À- -V-O-N-T-A-D-E- -F-I-C-A- -O- -R-A-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato" mean?
As a phrase, "quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato" 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 "quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato" come from?
"quando em casa não está o gato, à vontade fica o rato" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.