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False Friends

You may have come across the phrase “false friends” or “false cognates” (as they are more...

False Friends in Big Numbers

in German, as many of them are false friends — number names that are the same as...

False Friends ("Falsche Freunde") - Part 4

False Friends ("Falsche Freunde") - Part 1 False Friends ("Falsche...

False Friends ("Falsche Freunde") - Part 3

False Friends ("Falsche Freunde") - Part 1 False Friends ("Falsche...

False Friends ("Falsche Freunde") - Part 2

False Friends ("Falsche Freunde") - Part 1 False Friends ("Falsche...

False Friends ("Falsche Freunde") - Part 1

False Friends ("Falsche Freunde") - Part 2 False Friends ("Falsche...

Beware of False Friends!

False Friends: word pairs in two languages that look or...

False friends with hören

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True Friends!

a common meaning The lesson Beware of False Friends! showed that German words that have similar...

Actually, indeed, and in fact

You'll find this in our previous lessons about false friends.   Further Learning Try to write your own...

Expressions using Tisch, Part II

longer valid or being considered. Beware of false friends!   Zwei Jahre hat der Bau gedauert und...

Adjectives with un- and -los

completely different. There are also plenty of false friends lurking about!   Es sind so wenig Menschen...

A Singular Million

a Yabla lesson some time back about false friends in large numbers, where we discussed how a...

Irritated or Just Confused?

lessons, you have likely already heard about "false friends." These are words that sound similar in...

How bitte and bitten differ from “please” and “to please”

be aware that while these aren’t exactly false friends, they’re not completely equivalent.     The adverb, please!...

German Verbs and their Prepositions, Part I

We will be back with more verb/preposition false friends from time to time and point out common examples to be...