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Tuesday September 9, 2008
Learn five new word pairs that look alike in French and English but mean very different things: agréable/agreeable, cave, date, infect, and versatile.
Related lesson: True Cognates

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September 9, 2008 at 4:35 pm
(1) kevinoconnell says:

Agreeable - must disagree with you - the principal* meaning of “agreeable” is precisely “pleasant” or “pleasing” - look in OED or Robert/Collins (pleasant = agréable).

* “willing to agree to something” is secondary.

September 10, 2008 at 9:04 am
(2) cris says:

c’est comme “actually”, les élèves tombent toujours dans le panneau et le traduisent par actuellement.

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