"make oneself at home" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-make oneself at home.ogg [Australia] Forms: makes oneself at home [present, singular, third-person], making oneself at home [participle, present], made oneself at home [participle, past], made oneself at home [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> oneself at home}} make oneself at home (third-person singular simple present makes oneself at home, present participle making oneself at home, simple past and past participle made oneself at home)
  1. (idiomatic) To make oneself comfortable as if one were in one's own home. Tags: idiomatic Translations (make oneself comfortable as if one were in one's own home): 別客氣 (Chinese Mandarin), 别客气 (bié kèqi) (Chinese Mandarin), føle sig som hjemme (Danish), olla kuin kotonaan (Finnish), faire comme chez soi (French), se mettre à l’aise (French), otthon érzi magát (Hungarian), くつろぐ (kutsurogu) (Japanese), ごゆっくりする (go-yukkuri suru) (note: of 2nd or 3rd person) (Japanese), føle seg som hjemme (Norwegian Bokmål), czuć się jak u siebie w domu [imperfective] (Polish), poczuć się jak u siebie w domu [perfective] (Polish), sentir-se em casa (Portuguese), ficar à vontade (Portuguese), чу́вствовать себя́ как до́ма (čúvstvovatʹ sebjá kak dóma) [imperfective] (Russian), estar en casa (su) (Spanish), estar como en casa (su) (Spanish), ponerse cómodo (Spanish), känna sig som hemma (Swedish), гоститися (hostytysja) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-make_oneself_at_home-en-verb-gkh6k96G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Japanese terms with redundant script codes

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "make oneself comfortable as if one were in one's own home",
      "word": "känna sig som hemma"
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