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 Translation for 'false friend' from English to Italian
NOUN   a false friend | false friends
ling.
falso amico {m}
false friend
Partial Matches
amico {m}friend
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falso {adj}false
finto {adj}false
amico {m} comunemutual friend
amica {f}friend [female]
amico {m} a quattro zampefour-legged friend
È raccomandato da un pezzo grosso.He's got a powerful friend behind him.
unverified raccomandare il figlio di un amicoto put in a good word a friend's son
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Usage Examples English
  • By chance, when he is brought before the judge, he sees Betty and his false friend there to get married. He and Betty reconcile.
  • This is different from a false friend, which is a word with a cognate that has a different main meaning. Sometimes pseudo-anglicisms become false friends.
  • In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning.
  • It is often mistranslated as "Our Lady of Good Success" due to the superficial similarity between the Spanish word "suceso" (meaning "event") and the English false friend "success".
  • He played the false friend and Party apparatchik, O'Brien.

  • In French and many other languages, the pseudo-anglicism "smoking" refers to tuxedo/black tie clothing. It is a false friend deriving from the Victorian fashion of the smoking jacket.
  • Nigel receives an anonymous note warning him that Dalgarno is a false friend.
  • Enter Ferdinand, who mistaking Clara for a nun exclaims that he is chasing his false friend Antonio who has run off with his beloved Clara.
  • De Gaulle always mentioned Pétain by name whereas Pétain never mentioned de Gaulle directly, referring to him as the "faux ami" ("false friend").
  • Asked about the letter during an interview for the radio "FM O Dia", Joelma claims that the letter could be interpreted in various ways and talking about getting rid of the bad things in general: a false friend, a bad job, etc.

  • He remained farming with his parents for several years, until a false friend, by a swindling transaction, brought the father to ruin, and put an end to the rural pursuits of the son.
  • The New Translation into Romanian Language (NTLR, Baptist, 2006, copyright by Biblica) does not have this false friend.
  • An example of a Korean false friend is the word " [...] ", which sounds like "meeting" in English but means "blind date".
  • In French it is sometimes called a souvenir, but this is a false friend, [...] being the infinitive for the verb "to remember".
  • "Donjon" is therefore a false friend to "dungeon" (although the game "Dungeons & Dragons" is titled "Donjons et Dragons" in its French editions).

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