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elvith@feddit.org 4 days agoAnother example of a false friend:
German: Bekommen (to get), English: Become (werden)
Hence a joke I often heard while learning English:
Guest: “I become a steak.”
Waiter: “Well, I do hope you won’t, but I could ask the chef, if you insist…”
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
“Wie” in Dutch means “who” whilst in German it means “how”.
Having learned Dutch first, I can tell you that when I was first learning German the expression “Wie geht’s” tended to give me a serious mental hiccup when I was trying to talk to German people.