"porter" or "se mettre" clothes?

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Permalink Reply by Sandra on September 19, 2017 at 9:45am

"porter" is "wearing" clothes

"se mettre" is more "to put on" some clothes

the action of dressing is very rarely translated in french with "se mette" only in the special case:

"se mettre quelque chose sur le dos" 

Literally : "to put something on your back" => put on some clothes.

otherwise we use "s'habiller" that can be translated by "to dress"

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