Comment by ⛰️ tsukaj
false friends can be really confusing - to this day i struggle to quickly interpret "entendre" correctly ("hear" in french, while as you may know "entender" means understand both in spanish and portuguese)
2025-03-12 · 1 year ago
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— stack.tilde.cafe/puntos/2024-06-07.false_friends.gmi
False Friends — Spanish is known for a certain similarity to English, with an estimated 20,000 words being similar enough. But this can bite you - some words are FALSE COGNATES! I put together a list of some I've come across, and it's pretty amusing: Some of my favorites are: CONSTIPADO - having a cold, and EMBARAZADA - pregnant! Some words amusingly reverse their meanings:...