Talk:false friend

It could be useful to create a list of false friends in various languages. Something like:

FF / Language / Sounds like / True meaning

demander French demand ask

embarazada Spanish embarrassed pregnant

discusion Spanish discussion argument

discutir Spanish discuss argue

213.208.107.91 2 July 2005 14:48 (UTC)

Categories, (for example Category:False friends by language, Category:Spanish false friends) would be easier, and pretty cool. Ric | opiaterein 01:36, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

"one's own language"

Technically a false friend doesn't have to be a false friend to a word in one's own language, though I'm not sure how to rephrase the definition to clarify this. DAgosta 01:10, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

I have made some changes to rectify this. ---> Tooironic (talk) 03:05, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

true friend

The opposite of a false friend: words tha look alike and also mean something similar JMGN (talk) 20:07, 22 November 2023 (UTC)