Just A List of False Friends in English and Dutch

List with Translation and Pronunciation - False Friends Pronunciation Exercise

They look like you know them ... but they are not what you thought they'd be.

arm
arts
as
at
bad
baker
balk
band
bang
bank
bar
beef
been
beer
beet
belt
bent
bevel
bid
bier
big
blank
bond
boom
boon
boos
boot
boots
bots
bout
brand
branding
brave
breed
brief
brink
brood
chef
college
concrete
concurrent
crèche
damp
dampen
dank
deed
den
die
diner
ding
direct
doe
door
dove
dozen
drab
drank
driest
drop
douche
dun
elders
elk
email
envelop
even
fat
fee
fitting
file
flat
folder
fret
gal
gang
gave
gene
genie
gelding
gilt
gist
glad
gold
grind
grove
gulp
gum
gun
guts
gymnasium
hard
hark
have
haven
heel
held
helm
hem
hoe
honing
hoop
jammer
kale
keel
kin
kind
kinds
knot
lager
lag
lager
lam
late
last
lap
leek
leer
leg
lessen
let
letter
lever
libel
lid
lied
lies
link
links
lint
list
log
logger
loom
loop
loot
lover
lust
made
man
map
mare
mate
meet
men
messing
met
milt
minder
minister
mode
molt
moot
mop
mud
mug
multiplex
nap
nor
nut
occasion
of
offer
order
pad
pal
page
paring
pat
past
paste
peer
pees
penning
pens
pension
pet
pink
pit
plant
poet
poets
pond
pool
pop
port
prompt
prop
pummel
put
rag
rage
ramp
rank
rap
rapport
rare
raven
red
reed
rein
rest
ring
rode
roe
romp
roof
rook
room
rooster
rover
rug
ruin
rust
sinus
sip
sister
slang
slab
slag
slap
sleep
sleet
slim
slimmer
slinks
sloop
slot
smart
snap
spies
spin
spit
spook
spot
spring
stadium
stage
staking
stand
star
steel
stem
step
stomp
storing
storm
stout
strand
surprise
taken
talk
tang
teen
ten
thee
tilde
tin
tip
toe
tot
trap
tree
trek
trilling
trots
tube
turf
turn
twee
twist
vale
van
vast
veer
veiling
vent
verse
vest
vet
vies
violet
wand
want
war
was
waste
want
wee
went
wet
wig
wit
wonder
word
worst
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Words That Are Identical in English and Dutch and That Have about The Same Meaning

There are no Dutch verb infinitives in the list below. Enlish nouns can often be verbs too, but in Dutch that is extremely rare, if it is found at all. Hear pronunciation of the words below on: Pronunciation Exercise 2
absurd
accountant
adder (snake)
alcohol
amateur
angst
april
architect
arm *
atlas
auto
banjo
bank
barometer
bed
begin
best
(ik) bind
bitter
blind
bus
cement *
centimeter
chaos
cholera
concert
contact
contract *
cylinder ?
decibel
deodorant
diameter
discipline *
dogma
drama
(ik) drink
duel
duet
duo
echo
etiquette
expert (person)
experiment
film
fragment
fret *
fruit
gas
god
gram
half
hand
hard
harp
help
horizon
hut
in
incompetent
is
joker (cards)
kilometer
lab
lamp
land
later
lens
lip
liter
lust
man
margarine
meter
menu
meter
migraine
mild
mist
modern
moment
monument
navel
open
opera
oven
pan
park
pen
piano
platform
plan
plank
plant
plastic
privilege *
psalm
radio
rasp
rat
rebel
respect
rib
rot
rubber
salamander
school
shampoo
specialist
spelling !!!
splinters
spore
stop
tempo
tent
test
tetanus
Thai
thermometer
ton (1000kg)
trombone
tuba
tunnel
uniform *
virus
volume
wake
warm
was
water
week
west
wild
wind
winter
wolf
worm
(ik) wring
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I remember from playing scrabble that I sometimes came up with absurd, old-fashioned imperatives, like "The Lord said: ...!" I have not included those.

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