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Transparent words – True cognates

False cognates (friends)


Source: http://www.fluentu.com/spanish/blog/spanish-english-false-friends-cognates/

 Campo: Means a field or the country (in the sense of living in


the country, not the city). If you're going camping, you'll probably
be staying at a campamento or even a camping.

 Carpeta: Although this can refer to a type of table cover, it


doesn't have anything to do with carpets. It most often means
a file folder (including the virtual kind) or a briefcase. "Carpet"
is most often alfombra.

 Billón: 1,000,000,000,000. That number is the same as a trillion


in American English but a billion in traditional British English.
(Modern British English conforms with U.S. English, however.)

 Revolver: As its form suggests, this is a verb, in this case meaning to turn
over, to revolve, or otherwise to cause disorder. The Spanish word for
"revolver" is close, however: revólver.

 Suceso: Merely an event or happening, sometimes a crime. A


success is un éxito.
Make a sentence in English with every word without using a dictionary:
Introducir ______put in________________________________________________

Suceso ___event______________________________________________________

Carpeta__folder______________________________________________________

Campo ____field____________________________________________________

Molestar ____annoying___________________________________________________

Emocional ___emotional___________________________________________________

Lentes _lenses________________________________________________________

Bomberos__firemen____________________________________________________

Preservativos __condoms_________________________________________________

Éxito__success_________________________________________________________

Casualidad___coincidence___________________________________________________

Embarazada___pregnant__________________________________________________

Constipado ___stomachache__________________________________________________

Librería___book store_____________________________________________________

Realizar___do_____________________________________________________

Gangas____sales_____________________________________________________

Lectura___reading______________________________________________________

Recordar_____remember__________________________________________________

Carta____letter______________________________________________________
A lot of False Friends
When I was 9, I didn’t like college because I had a lot of false friends.
It was a very bad experience because I started getting constipated
from the morning due to the cold and nobody offered me a single
tissue.
Later during the break, I introduced a coin into the snack machine
and nothing came out. My friends saw me and started molesting me
because they thought that I was stupid. In that moment I recorded
that inside my carpet I had some more coins and suddenly I saw a
card from my grandma, I was suppressed and then I read it. It was
very nice and sweet! …and also it contained some dinner to buy
books in the library, I took some books and when I was going to pay,
they told me I was the costumer 10.000! it was a happy casualty.
I went to a restaurant for lunch and suddenly there were some gangs
of cake, so I bought all of my favorite flavors because everything was
very cheap. I was so emotional! 
In the class of history we had a lecture comprehension of a text but it
was difficult. Later an important thing success: the teacher couldn’t
arrive because she was embarrassed; therefore we were free to
realize other activities. We were very excited.
That was a long time ago, actually I’m at the university and I really
like it, because it’s different than studying at school, because I have
real friends that help me to be better…

Like you! Could you help me to identify those False friends?


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