... . - She's very lovely. MORE> Falsche Freunde (False Cognates)~ A "false cognate" is a word in one language that is identical or similar to a word in another language, but does not mean the ... English fast would be "schnell". The following is a glossary of the many German-English "false friends" and other words that can be confusing

... civlizations, going back to several millennia. Examples of such structures are the garden houses at Montacute House. The word origin is unknown, it has no cognates in other European languages. False etymologies are proposed, such as the French Que c'est beau ("How beautiful") and the Macaronic Latin gazebo ("I shall ...