False Friends: 5 German Words That Don’t Mean What You Think They Do

SeanJohn

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0 i1 M  W$ u2 [! TGerman and English are both Germanic languages, so they not only share many grammatical features but also have a lot of similar words. For example, when you know English and you hear the German word “Haus” you immediately know what it means: house. The spelling is different, but it sounds exactly the same!

Similarly, a “Freund” is a friend, “Sand” is sand, “grün” is green, and so on and so forth. And as it happens when two languages are very close, there are also many words which seem the same but mean completely different things.