false friend in the PONS Dictionary

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In this time you will have lots of people offering you their help and while the greater majority will have the very best of intentions, beware the false friend.
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Better to lose to a true enemy whose policies you can fight and repudiate, rather than to a false friend whose schemes will drag you down with him.
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This translation extends to the use of linguistic false friends, such as rare (from raro) instead of strange and syndicate (from sindicato) instead of trade union.
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These false friends can be a source of misunderstanding.
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Such an approach has the disadvantage of making the learner more subject to the influence of false friends.
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People constantly want to contact him, though his only discourse consists of curses for flatterers and false friends.
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For this reason, teachers sometimes compile lists of false friends as an aid for their students.
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But alcohol is a seductive, false friend to the nervous because it aggravates the very anxiety it is supposed to cure.
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The term "wandern", frequently misused as a false friend, does in fact not mean to wander, but to hike.
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If a second language learner relies solely on word associations to learn new vocabulary, that person will have a very difficult time mastering false friends.
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