When you hear the Swedes say ”bra,” they mean ”good,” instead of a type of women’s underwear.The Portuguese however has a very different meaning to berros. Watercress is a salad green that is called ”berros” in Spanish.But in Russian, privet, which means ”greetings,” is informally used to say ”hello.” ”Privet” is a type of evergreen shrub or small tree that you can use as a border wall.In Portugal, it is the term they use for ”nail.” You’re likely to say ”prego” when you’re in Italy instead of the usual ”thank you” but it means something very mundane in Portuguese.“Kind” means ”child” in German but ”sheep” in Icelandic. Cake in Icelandic is ”kaka” but it is an ”older sister” in Bulgarian.In French, though, ”pet” is the translation of ”fart” (yes, the foul-smelling variety). But it means ”good luck” in Polish and ”speed” in Swedish. “Fart” is a vulgar English word that means expelling intestinal gas.The term means ”cactus” in Spanish or a ”ton” in Czech. Tuna is a large fish that is a Japanese favorite when making sashimi.But the speakers of Basque use the term to mean ”flame.” “Sugar” is something sweet and it’s a sweet term used by Romanians for a baby aged 0-12 months.The Spanish term for frog is “rana,” but rana means, ”wound” in Romanian and Bulgarian.In Polish, they use the term it indicate “a single woman.” “Panna” is cream in English and in Italian, but means ”put” in Finnish.“Home” is where you live, but it means ”mold” in Finnish and ”man” in Catalan.The English word ”gift” means ”poison” in German and Norwegian and ”married” in Swedish.Donkey in Spanish is ”burro” whereas for the Italian, it means ”butter.”.You use the term ”chips” when you mean ”French fries” while the French use ”Crisps” when they say chips.“Car in a motorized vehicle, but for the French, it means ”because.” A chariot for the English speakers is a horse-drawn vehicle or a carriage, but the French use this term to mean something smaller, like a ”trolley.”.Beer in English means a ”bear” in Dutch, while they use the term ”big” to refer to a ”baby pig.”.On the other hand the English word ”bat” refers to a flying mammal or a club used to hit a ball. An outlying building in a farm is called ”barn,” which is the term for ”children” in Dutch.Bank could be an institution where people deposit their money, something or someone you trust or the sloping land close to a body of water.The arm is an upper body extremity but for the Dutch it is the term used when they mean “bad.” But the English term ”bad” is equivalent to ”bath” in Dutch.You mean something not specific or whatever when you say “any.” But in Catalan, it is equivalent to “year” although others use the word “curs.”.Angel in German translates to ”fishing rod” and ”sting” in Dutch. The English word “angel” means a supernatural being often represented with wings.In English “to use the voice,” means to say something “aloud.” In Dutch, aloud means “ancient”.In some cases they are ”false friends” meaning the words stand for something else from what you know. The words may be similar due to them coming from the same language family or due to loan words. Other words sound like English words with a slight difference in pronunciation, such as taxi, which in Korean is taek-si (pronounced taek-shi). Many of these English words are the same in spelling, for example in German, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Sweden and many other languages, but they have different meanings. Many English speakers believe that other cultures will understand the English words they use, without realizing that some of the words in English have different connotations or meanings in different languages. Globally, English is one of the most spoken and popular languages.
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