quando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

46 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

quando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano 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 la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano
PropertyValue
Headwordquando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters46
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano 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 la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano is 46 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 la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano 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 la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano, spelled Q-U-A-N-D-O- -L-A- -G-A-T-T-A- -N-O-N- -È- -I-N- -P-A-E-S-E-,- -I- -T-O-P-I- -B-A-L-L-A-N-O, 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/Kätzin nicht in der Gegend ist, tanzen die Mäuse“)

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano"?
"quando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano" is spelled Q-U-A-N-D-O- -L-A- -G-A-T-T-A- -N-O-N- -È- -I-N- -P-A-E-S-E-,- -I- -T-O-P-I- -B-A-L-L-A-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "quando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano" mean?
As a phrase, "quando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano" 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 la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano" come from?
"quando la gatta non è in paese, i topi ballano" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter Q in our German index:

Explore PlainSpell

Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.