Hello everyone,
I’m currently reading a book and I faced myself with the following construction:
ゆったりとする
I concluded that it means “comfortabIy”. searched yuttari on Jisho.org and it says yuttari is an “adverb taking the ‘to’ particle”
But what would be the diferrence if I removed the “と” from the sentence?
ゆったりする has any difference from ゆったりとする?
I don’t see much difference in usage.
And if you look it up in a dictionary, it has the と with parentheses, which usually means it’s optional with no change in meaning.
There’s probably some level of it “feeling” different to Japanese people, so I don’t know without asking a native.
Note: That doesn’t necessarily apply to all words that take と in that way. I can’t speak to that.
Thank you 
It is pretty subtle, generally the version with と sounds slightly more formal / literary, but it also places a little bit more emphasis on the adverb itself.
Also without the context for the question. Here is an example for when the difference becomes bigger.
I am always very fond of your answers to language questions. jsyk. 
There is unfortunately no "Sup? *eyes * " emoji for this situation.
I’ll just say even if I don’t know the answer myself I know where to get good answers and relay them in a good way.
And that’s extremely appreciated! 
Heh
It was really informative, thank you very much
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