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164 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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164 months ago

MariaManzano   wrote:

to slip into something more comfortable

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164 months ago

   wrote:

Yes, here, this is right.

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164 months ago

MariaManzano   wrote:

change (clothes)

164 months ago

Maria de Fátima Bizarro   wrote:

...while he (Vasco) was going to put himself at ease

My comment:

Vasco is not inviting anyone to make him/herself comfortable. He is going to change his clothes to something more comfortable and/or casual.

164 months ago

Maria de Fátima Bizarro   wrote:

sit back with ease

164 months ago

Martha Schwan   wrote:

put yourself at ease

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164 months ago

airmailrpl   wrote:

Make yourself at home.

My comment:

pôr-se à vontade = > make yourself at home

My references:

Make yourself at home.
Fig. Please make yourself comfortable in my home. (Also a signal that a guest can be less formal.) Andy: Please come in and make yourself at home. Sue: Thank you. I'd like to. Bill: I hope I'm not too early. Bob: Not at all. Come in and make yourself at home. I've got a few little things to do. Bill: Nice place you've got here.
http://www.idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Make+yourself+at+home

164 months ago

LOGOS TRANSLATIONS   wrote:

to make oneself at home, to put oneself at ease

My comment:

imho

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164 months ago

   wrote:

Yes, basic Portuguese.

164 months ago

   wrote:

Literary translation is never "basic." I've come up with something else since I entered this question, which better reflects the entire context.

164 months ago

   wrote:

se por a vontade is basic Portuguese. The kind of idiom one would learn in first year Portuguese.