Pregnant means to be in labor in English.
Prägnant in German means succinct or concise.
You might hear a German native speaker say "She has a very pregnant personality".
Another thing that is different is who and where.
Who means "wer" in German.
Where means "wo" in German.
Someone who´s English is very bad might mix up the two. It´s not a problem if you pronounce the English words properly, but beginners usually don´t do that and get confused.
in chinese, the most common form of "umm" is 哪个，which is pronounced "neighguh"
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Anonymous2012-07-24 14:13
火照る (hoteru) means to be hot or flushed, and sounds kind of like the English "hot"
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Anonymous2012-07-25 13:49
Finnish and Japanese have words that are pronounced the same way.
Few examples (japanese word - finnish meaning)
かに、rabbit
すし、wolf (actually written susi in finnish)
りす、twig
はい、shark
そら、gravel
あき、aki(name)
なる、rope
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Jojo Bizarro2012-07-26 5:59
The Czech word for “no” is «ne,» which is pronounced just like «네», the Korean word for “yes.” The Czech word for “yes” is «ano,» which almost sounds like «아뇨» («aňo» in Czech spelling), the Korean word for “no.”
Also, the Turkish word for “good” is «iyi», which sounds like the Japanese word for “good”: «良い».
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Anonymous2012-07-26 21:50
In Mexico, the word "cajeta" means "caramel", but if you're in Argentina, then the word will mean "shit".
So never say you love or enjoy eating "cajeta" with Argentinian people. They'll just look at you with horror
>Hey guys, let's talk about words from different languages that sound similar but have different meanings! Bonus points for comedy or irony.
>Those two words mean entirely different things, idiot.
Have you ever herped so bad you derped?
Yes, you have. You just did.
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Anonymous2012-09-02 13:21
喫茶 - kissa means (to) pee in Swedish.
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Anonymous2012-09-08 13:07
[lattjolajban] in Swedish is TV-show for kids, in some parts of China it means you should come back and play.
Być means 'to be' in Polish.
It sounds like 'bitch' in English. '
I get looks whenever I use the word in public.
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Anonymous2012-09-13 0:17
In Polish, "no"(pronounced like の) is slang for "yes". Tak and nie are the proper terms for yes and no, respectively.
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Anonymous2012-09-13 2:01
>>42
meanwhile いいえ and いや sounds like "yeh" and "yah"
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Anonymous2012-09-13 14:37
山(yama) - a mountain, both sounds and is transliterated to russian as pit\hole.
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Anonymous2012-09-15 14:38
in italian, "confetti" is coriandoli, "Bologna" is mortadella, "salami" is affettati, "peperoni" is salame piccante, "pronto!" is presto!, "guidos" is terroni, ecc...
In case anyone is still confused, the point was to post perfectly normal words in languages that are pronounced similarly, or exactly like, dirty / swear words in another language.
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Anonymous2012-10-26 2:47
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, rear end, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
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Anonymous2012-12-03 18:41
Sega means handjob in Italian.
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Anonymous2012-12-03 20:25
sega mega drive
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Anonymous2012-12-13 19:57
Turkish for "tea" is "çay", read as chai.
Seller as in best seller is "satan", wich had caused some people at /tv/ to ask why was The Girl With the Durgon Tattoo associated with the Devil after seeing the word "SATAN" on the TR poster.