Ohh, nice idea!
Out of the top of my head...
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Originally Posted by omk3
Do you have words that sound the same as in other languages, but mean something completely different?
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Yes. You even write it exactly the same:
Bellen and Bellen.
In Dutch it means to make a phone call.
In German it means to bark (you know, what a dog does...)
Every year there are comical situation when German market sales persons are here for our local flower market every year. And people are saying "Ich bellen Sie"... (Ik zal u bellen)
Another funny tidbit.
You know the animal
wildebeest? It's a Dutch word. But we always call the same animal "gnoe"...
(wild = wild, beest = beast).
Another word from all the way down south: Apartheid (being seperated from each other). Not a word to be proud off. But it's Dutch as well. It would be the opposite of "Eenheid" (belonging together).