quando em casa não está o gato, folga o rato
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German
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quando em casa não está o gato, folga 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 […].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quando em casa não está o gato, folga o rato |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 44 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for quando em casa não está o gato, folga o rato is 44 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, folga 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, folga 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-,- -F-O-L-G-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
- 1bei 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, freut sich die Maus“)
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