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False friends are words that can be written or sound similar in two or more languages, but actually mean different things, due to their etymology, or to the original meaning is corrupted in one of them, with the passage of centuries. They usually occur between terms of different languages of origin (such as Spanish, which is romance and the German, who perenece the West Germanic group, but this is not necessarily true (as clearly seen in the case of Castilian and Portuguese). Here are some lists provide false friends, who may be particularly useful when you are learning foreign languages or translations.
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