{"id":64,"date":"2007-08-24T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=64"},"modified":"2014-07-18T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:46:59","slug":"fica-a-vontade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/fica-a-vontade\/","title":{"rendered":"Fica a Vontade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fica a vontade<\/strong> means make yourself at home<\/em>. This is another very common, useful phrase, and is the centerpiece of Brazilian hospitality.<\/p>\n


\nYou can use this saying when receiving guests, or in other circumstances to mean do what you need to do, don’t worry about me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This expression is comprised of two profoundly useful words in the Portuguese language: ficar<\/strong> and vontade<\/strong>. I plan on doing an entire post on ficar<\/strong> as it is a ubiquitous and many-splendored verb in Brazil. Vontade<\/strong> means will<\/em> and is related to the idea of free will<\/em> in filosofia<\/a><\/strong>, though the best word for free will<\/em> in the academic sense would be livre-arb\u00edtrio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fica a vontade means make yourself at home. This is another very common, useful phrase, and is the centerpiece of Brazilian hospitality. … Continue Reading<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1848],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-customs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t