12 Faux Amis to Watch Out For

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  • @FrenchLearningHub
    @FrenchLearningHub  3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What faux ami gives you the most trouble?

    • @susankaplan7936
      @susankaplan7936 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      disparaitre... I was told someone had disparu and I thought they were temporarily lost..

    • @aohoaam
      @aohoaam 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm just beginner so I don't know many words. But my trouble friend now is "eventually vs éventuellement".

    • @Khushi-q5m6f
      @Khushi-q5m6f 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can I say only 2 of them I knew and the rest of them were out of my head 😐

    • @TinasKdramaTales
      @TinasKdramaTales 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actuellement

    • @elasteeves9182
      @elasteeves9182 ปีที่แล้ว

      The word "Facture"😅

  • @karanveersingh3498
    @karanveersingh3498 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

  • @vinishap222
    @vinishap222 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You left out 'attendre' and 'travailler'. As someone who teaches french, I've come across students who take 'attendre' to mean 'to attend' and 'travailler' as 'to travel'.

  • @AJ112
    @AJ112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    attendre. I always think it means to attend but it means to wait. WHY!!!!!

    • @Khushi-q5m6f
      @Khushi-q5m6f 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😐Bro you are not the only one :|

  • @patriciapicard6160
    @patriciapicard6160 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you very much for explaning.

  • @someonethatisntfunny1622
    @someonethatisntfunny1622 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A lot of these faux amis are pretty easy to avoid if you're a native spanish speaker and compare them to their spanish counterparts.

  • @mep6302
    @mep6302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As a Spanish speaker, the worst faux ami was entendre and entender. Entendre = hear. Entender = understand. It was hard for me to get used to this difference. Another one is prendre and prender. Prendre = take. Prender = turn on/switch on.

    • @ketakichivate6837
      @ketakichivate6837 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      instead of entender, you could always use comprendre (to understand) if the two words confuse you a lot

  • @adityashinde3883
    @adityashinde3883 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had question
    if I go to France and I somehow get hurt, so I am a native English speaker, so I will say pain, pain, pain!. so will the French people give me bread or take me to a hospital

  • @hamiidamiidasnov2969
    @hamiidamiidasnov2969 ปีที่แล้ว

    éviter whiich means to avoid it, was my first faux ami

  • @mariuslackenbucher6696
    @mariuslackenbucher6696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Funnily enough alot of those false friends are not a problem for a native German speaker (though we have different faux amis obviously) but for example actuellement and éventuellement have the same meaning like the German words "Aktuell" and "Eventuell" (so for me it was tricky to learn them in English). And a library in German is also a "Bibliothek". So being a native German speaker and having learned English French isn't that difficult to learn. Alot of the grammatical concepts and certain words are close to German - e. g. there is a difference between "kennen" (connaître) and "wissen" (savoir) and so for me it was very easy to know when I had to use either of these words. And of course like in English there are alot of foreign words taken from French.

    • @NicolaiCordes
      @NicolaiCordes ปีที่แล้ว +2

      lol it is the exact same in danish.

  • @saarthakpandit6236
    @saarthakpandit6236 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is another which came to my mind as a French learner-
    The word is "Histoire"
    Histoire actually means a story and not history.

    • @gregguillot7767
      @gregguillot7767 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It actually means both history and story, but yes...point taken.

  • @Thrillz_Ryan
    @Thrillz_Ryan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Caractère: My first thought about this word was cataract 😂

  • @Khushi-q5m6f
    @Khushi-q5m6f 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey ty for making this video... Really you don't know how much I learned from it... Honestly I would say I had trouble with these words..
    I just want to say please make videos on some vocabulary :>

  • @electriclord3
    @electriclord3 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    One heads up:
    Supporter can actually mean to support in the context of a football team for example. “Tu supportes quells équipe ?” Means “What team do you support?“ and it does not mean to put up with. “Les supporteurs“ means “the supporters“ (of a team)

  • @Marcpapi
    @Marcpapi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I keep using actuellement wrong as actually it just sounds correct I’m sorry 😭

    • @mariuslackenbucher6696
      @mariuslackenbucher6696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Funnily enough in German it's more like French where the word "Aktuell" means currently. Same for eventually - the German word "eventuell" means "possibly".

  • @etherealkraken2662
    @etherealkraken2662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good stuff man

  • @celinesignoret7708
    @celinesignoret7708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "entendre" and "entender" in Spanish
    entendre= hear
    entender= understand

  • @Fostermawunya
    @Fostermawunya ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you ❤

  • @Marcpapi
    @Marcpapi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Petition to swap actuellement et en fait

    • @BenTheGreat
      @BenTheGreat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I support that