In linguistics, a false friend is either of a pair of words in different languages that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning. An example is the English embarrassed and the Spanish embarazada (which means pregnant), the word parents and the Portuguese parentes and Italian parenti (both meaning relatives), or the word sensible , which means reasonable in English, but sensitive in French, German, Italian and Spanish .
In linguistics, a false friend is either of a pair of words in different languages that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning. An example is the English embarrassed and the Spanish embarazada (which means pregnant), the word parents and the Portuguese parentes and Italian parenti (both meaning relatives), or the word bribe , which means 'suborn' in English, but crumb in French .
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sensible
bribe
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reasonable
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sensitive in French, German, Italian and Spanish
crumb in French