Falsaj Amikoj / Faux Amis / False Friends!

Words spelled alike in different languages:

• amerà, amère
• Italian: will love
• French: bitter
• apa, ape
• Romanian: apa = water
• English, Swedish: ape = monkey
• Italian:  ape = bee
• batir
• French: to build
• Spanish: to beat
• bean
• English: bean (a legume, vegetable)
• Irish Gaelic: woman
• billion
• American: 10^9 (= milliard in European)
• European: 10^12 (= trillion in American)
• bögö/bög ö
• Hungarian: contrabass, the string instrument
• Swedish: bög = gay person, ö = island
• burro
• Spanish: donkey
• Italian: butter
• but
• English: but, yet
• French: goal, aim, or a point scored in football
• car
• English: automobile
• French: because
• come
• English: to come /km/
• Spanish: come /kome/ = (he) eats
• Italian: come = like, similar to
• demand / demander
• English: to require
• French: to ask
• dos
• Greek: give!
• French: back
• Spanish: two
• dot
• English: a small spot
• French: dowry
• fart
• English: fart /fart/
• French: fart = ski-wax
• German: Fahrt /fa:rt/ = a drive, ride; (ihr) fahrt = you (pl.) do, make
• Esperanto: kiel vi fartas? /fartas/ = how are you doing?
• foresto, forest
• Esperanto: for/esto = esto for = being away
• English: collection of trees
• gift, Gift
• English: a present
• German: poison
• I
• English: I
• Danish: you (plural)
• inside
• English: in the interior
• Esperanto: insidiously
• iris
• English: a kind of flower
• Esperanto: went (mi iris = I went)
• köntös, kön tös
• Hungarian: köntös = lady's costume
• Swedish: kön = sex (as in the fair sex)
• Sw/Nor: tös = little girl (Swedish), prostitute (Norwegian)
• kuko
• Esperanto: cake
• Swedish: male sex organ
• male
• English: masculine
• Esperanto: oppositely
• mist/Mist
• English: mist, fog, haze
• German: manure, shit
• ni
• Esperanto: we, us
• Swedish: you (pl)
• nombre
• French: number
• Spanish: name
• nova, no va
• Esperanto, Latin, etc.:  new
• Spanish: won't go
• pack up, packa upp
• English: to fill your suitcase
• Swedish: to empty your suitcase
• pet
• English: domesticated animal
• French: fart
• petite
• French: small (feminine version of the adjective "petit")
• Esperanto: having been asked/requested
• pour
• English: to transfer a liquid
• French: for
• probation, /probation/
• English: temporary situation, trial period
• Greek: little lamb
• promiscuity/promiscuité
• English: immorality
• French: living in cramped quarters
• ropa, rope
• Spanish: clothes
• English: heavy cord, string
• salir
• French: to dirty
• Spanish: to leave, go out
• sensible
• English: /'sEn s@ bl/
• French: /sã 'si bl/ = sensitive
• sex
• English: sex
• Swedish: six
• sin
• Spanish: without
• English: transgression
• Esperanto: him/herself, oneself, themselves (accusative reflexive pronoun)
• subir
• French: to undergo (for example, to undergo surgery)
• Spanish: to mount, get in (a vehicle, etc.)
• tener, tenir
• Spanish: tener = to have
• French: tenir = to hold, grasp
• vane
• English: weather-vane
• Esperanto: vainly
• vi, vie
• Esperanto: you
• Swedish: we
• French: life
• English: strive, compete
• via, vie
• Latin, Italian: via /'vi @/ or /'Ui @/ = road, way
• French: vie /vi/ = life
• vida, vide
• Spanish: life
• French: empty
• ville, villa
• French: ville /'vil/ = city
• Spanish/Italian/Latin: villa /'vi j@/ = house, manor
• vine
• English: climbing plant, such as "grapevine"
• Spanish: I came
• vino
• Esperanto: wine
• Spanish: he came

Words that sound alike:

• /alektor/
• Greek: rooster, male chicken
• English: elector, person who elects
• /bich/
• Polish: to be
• English: female dog
• /dai/
• Italian: Oh! Hey! Yoo-hoo!
• English: Die!
• /dawg/
• English: dog
• Hebrew: fish
• /dud/
• English: dude
• Hindi: milk
• Arabic: worm
• /eimi/
• English: Amy (girl's name) from French Aimée
• Greek: I am
• /ek/
• English: ache
• Hindi: one
• /etlap/
Hungarian: étlap = menu
Swedish: ätlapp = a friend posing as a foe.
• /hai/
• English: hi, hello
• German: Hai = shark
• Japanese: yes
• /hi/
• English: he
• Hebrew, Welsh: she
• /hu/
• English: who
• Hebrew: he
• /ja/
• German, Swedish: yes
• Russian: I
• ~ Modern Greek: geiá sou = hello
• /kau/
• English: cow
• Thai: rice
• /ken/
• In ALL languages: Ken, my name!
• English: knowledge
• Mandarin: sincere, drainage
• /keskese/
• Northern Norwegian: Ke e ska sei? = What shall I say?
• French:  Qu'est que c'est? = What is it?
• /kul/
• English: cool
• French: cul = posterior, arse
• Esperanto: kulo = gnat
• /kurv/,/kurva/
• English: curve
• Russian: prostitute (slang)
• /mai/
• English: my
• Thai: not
• Italian: never
• German: May
• /mat/
• English: floor covering
• Arabic: dead
• /met/
• English: past tense of "to meet"
• French: mette = put (subjunctive case)
• Hebrew: dead
• /mi/
• English: me
• Hebrew: who
• /nai/
• English: nigh, nearby
• Greek: yes, yes indeed
• Tamil: dog
• /nain/
• English: nine, 9
• German: nein = no
• Finnish: I ... engage in sex
• /ni/
• English: knee
• Esperanto: we, us
• Swedish: you (pl)
• Thai: day
• /okei/,/okhi/:
• English: ok = yes
• Greek: no
• /rat/
• British: rot
• Russian: mouth
• /sau/
• Thai: she
• English: sow = female pig
• /shu/
• English: shoe
• French: choux = cabbage
• /ti/
• Thai: at (a certain time)
• English: tea
• Greek: what?
• /vasistas/
• German: Was ist das? = What is that?
• French: small window
• /venir/
• Spanish, French: to come
• English: (veneer) outer finish covering

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