Faux Amis
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
Related lesson: True Cognates


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