False friend
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title:
False friend
text:
In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning. Examples of false friends include English embarrassed and Spanish embarazado 'pregnant'; English parents versus Portuguese parentes and Italian parenti; English demand and French demander 'ask'; and English gift, German Gift 'poison', and Norwegian gift, both 'married' and 'poison'. The term was introduced by a French book, Les faux am
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Words in two languages that sound similar but have very different meanings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend
date created:
2001-12-26T20:17:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T16:22:22Z
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