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| Almost Identical Words, Similar Meaning |
| False Friends: Identical Words, Different Meaning |
the: de
2 /
het
2
3
- 't
->>
Plurals always take 'de'
a: (een) - 'n
/ one: één
2
3
2
2
3
(snake)
2
(the Dutch word also means 'policeman' or 'policewoman')
2
2
2
3
(body part)
2
2
3
2
2
2
beginning, start)
2
I'm beginning, I'm starting
2
2
I'm binding
2
2
(noun only)
2
(compleet
)
2
3
2
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
I'm drinking
2
2
2
3
2
3
2
3
2
(noun, person only)
2
2
(on musical instruments)
2
2
2
musical instrument
2
(help me!)
2
2
2
2
(he is etc.)
2
(in card games)
(laboratory)
2
3
2
2
3
(a male; husband)
2
2
3
2
2
(bellybutton)
2
2
2
3
2
2
(living plant)
(noun, the material only)
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
3
2
2
decay
2
3
2
3
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
(stop; stop!)
2
2
3
2
2
3
(1000kg)
2
(noun only, 'standard clothing')
2
(amount of space, level of sound)
2
(I was etc.)
2
2
2
2
(I'm wringing)
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
‑>>
2
2
2
3
4
5
2
3
2
2
2
(3
4)
2
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
3
2
3
4
2
2
2
3
2
‑>>
2
3
4
2
2
3
2
2
2
('left-wing,' US 'liberal')
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
(NOT: a light fever)
2
3
2
2
3
2
person
adjective
more: Easy Dutch - 2 - 3
- a girls' name - a boys' name
- a Frisian boys' name
- 1. arm (body part) 2. poor
2
- Medical Doctor
- 1. ashes 2. axle, axis
2
(ik at
2
- I ate, I was eating)
- bath
(ik bad
- I was praying)
(obsolete) - nanny
- a beam (wood)
- 1. tire, tube 2. bond, tie, tape
- afraid, scared
- 1. money services 2. bench
2
- 1. drinks place 2. harsh, bleak
- leg
2
(ik beef
2
- I tremble)
- bear
- 1. bite 2. gotcha!
2
(hij belt
2
- he is on the phone)
2
(jij bent
2
- (you) are)
- order, command
2
(ik bid
- I pray, I am praying)
- pig
2
- white (pink) skin
2
union, association, federation
2
- tree
- bean
- angry
- boat
2
(ik boots na
2
- I imitate, mimic)
2
3
(ik bots
2
I collide, crash into)
- 1. leg meat 2. bolt for nut
- fire
2
- breakers, waves on a beach
2
- well-behaved, harmless
- wide, broad
2
- letter (mail)
- village square
2
- bread
2
- department head - a boys' name
- 1. university class 2. council
2
- physical, solid, real (not talk)
2
- business competitor
- children's daycare center
2
- vapor
- thanks
(ik deed
- I did)
- 1. pine tree 2. old-fashioned 'the'
- that, those
->>
- festive evening meal
- thing
2
- immediately; straightaway
2
- varied
(ik doe
- I do)
- 1. through 2. by
->>
2
- a deaf person
2
- boxes
2
- thick, murky liquid
- beverage; liquor
- bold, reckless
- liquorice (the black candy)
- shower
- thin, skinny
- elsewhere, in another place
- each, every
- enamel / English: email
2
- 1. just a moment 2. even numbers
->>
- a dandy
- a fairy - a boys' name
- traffic jam
2
- lightbulb socket - a boys' name - a girls' name
- brochure - partition on string instrument neck
- a girls' name
- gall
- corridor, hallway
2
- 1. gift 2. whole, undamaged
2)
(obsolete) - 'those yonder'
2
(zij gilt
2
- she shrieks)
- yeast
2
('t gold
2
- ~it counted as)
- 1. slippery 2. smooth
- gravel, pebbles
(grof/grove
)
coarse
- fly, pants zipper
- eraser
(ik gun
2
- I grant)
- a woodcarving tool
secondary school with Latin
- 1. not soft 2. fast, not slow
- 1. rake (garden) 2. a clumsy male - a boys' name
(obsolete) - (moveable) property
- port, harbor
2
- 1. whole 2. very
- hero
- helmet
- him
- how?
2
- honey
2
- 1. hope 2. heap, load
2
- it's a pity - a girls' name
(kaal/kale
2)
- bald
- throat
2
- chin
2
- child
2 - senile
- skein, ball (of wool)
2
(ik lag
2
3
- I was lying down)
- lower
- 1. lamb 2. lame, paralyzed
(laat/late
2)
- late (not early)
- burden
- a piece of fabric
- layman
2
- it looked like)
2
- 1. leather 2. teachings
(ik leg
- I lay down)
2
- 1. lessons 2. to slake
2
- to slake thirst)
(let op!
2 - pay
attention!)
2
- alphabet character
- liver
2
3 - dragonfly
2 - member
- song - a girls' name - groin, where the leg joins the body
2
(slang) - dangerous
- left (not right)
2
- ceremonial tape
2
- ruse, trick
- hard to move, not nimble
2
- harder to move
- lung
2
- slow, languid
2
- 1. gunbarrel 2. course
- I walk)
- new, young branch
2
- a girls' name
2
- 1. a lottery ticket 2. fate
(obsolete) - leaves, foliage
2
- engineer, engine driver
- maggot
2
- 1. adult male human 2. husband
- holder for papers, folder
2
(old-fashioned) - report; rumor; story, legend - the navy
2
- 1. mate van
- level of, degree
2
- 2. met mate
- in moderation
(ik meet
- I take measurements)
- an informal 'they'
2
- brass (copper/zinc)
- with
2
3
- a girls' name
2
3
- spleen (organ)
- less, fewer
2
- cabinet minister, secretary
- fashion
2
(hij molt
2
- he breaks, destroys)
- a fish steak
2
- a joke
2
(obsolete) - 100 liters measure
- mosquito
2
- laminated board (>3 layers)
(obsolete) - small wooden bowl
(slang) - prison
- usefulness, use
2
- secondhand car for sale
- or
->>
2
- sacrifice
- order (buying / command)
2
- 1. path 2. toad
- a knight's servant
- (standing) firm
2
- 1. mating 2. pairing
2
('t past
- it fits)
2
(het paste
- it fit - past tense)
- stalemate (chess)
2
3
- pear
2
- tendon
2
- medal, coin
2
- 1. tripe 2. paunch
- boarding house
2
- 1. baseball cap 2. rotten, not good
- little finger, 'pinky'
2
- 1. small fruit seed 2. human energy
- living plant
2
- loot, criminal gain (slang)
2
1. practical joke, trick
2
- I am polishing, shining
- 500 grams, ~ pound
- pole (North, South)
2
- doll
- Portuguese sweet, strong wine
- responding quickly
- ill-mannered young man
2
- well, waterhole
- spiderweb material, also: (het) spinrag
2
- craze, fad
- disaster
2
- rank in hierarchy
2
- 1. slender
2. tendril, vine
(obsolete) - quickly
2
- official report; grades sheet
(raar/rare
2)
- strange, weird, odd
2
- ravens
2
(ik red
2
- I rescue, save)
(ik reed
2
- I rode, I drove)
2
- pure, clean (old-fashioned)
2
- remainder, remnant
2
- ring (on finger)
(rood / rode
)
- red
2
- (bundle of twigs, for punishment)
2
- trunk, body w/o head, arms and legs
2
- robbery, theft
- smoke
- cream
2
- 1. grate 2. schedule, roster
- robber, mugger
- back (body part)
2
- rest, a time of quiet
- sine (trigoniometry)
2
- glum, unhappy
2
- medieval string instrument
2
- bib
- blow; battle
2
- 1. snake 2. hose
- weak
2
(ik sleep
- I drag, I tow)
2
(ik sleet
2
- ~I spent my time)
- bright, intelligent
2
- more clever
2
- devious, cunning, secretly
2
- 1. pillowcase 2. wrecking, e.g. cars
2
- 1. lock 2. end 3. castle
2
(obsolete) - pain, hurt
2
3
(ik snap 't
2
3
- I understand [it])
2
3
tension (both physical and psychological)
skewer, metal pin for roasting
- spider
2
- ghost
2
- ridicule, derision
(ik spring
2
- I jump)
2
- stage, phase
- internship
2
- strike, work stoppage
- setting
- rigid, inflexible
2
- 1. large tools stick 2. stem (plants)
- 1. voice 2. vote
2
- children's scooter
2
- 1. not sharp 2. punch, hit 3. stub
2
- interruption
2
- high winds, gale
- naughty
- beach
- college & university student only
- tasks
- baby powder
2
- pliers
- toe
(old-fashioned) - 'at'
- tea
2
3
(hij tilde
2
3
- he lifted)
- tin (the metal, Sn) - a girls' name
- suggestion
2
- 1. come on! 2 ~direction - a boys' name
- till
- stairs
- stairs step
2
- 1. hunger, an appetite 2. epic journey
2
- I pull, I drag)
2
- vibration, trembling
2
- pride; proud
2
- (toothpaste etc.) container
- peat
2
(ik turn
2
- type of gymnastics)
- quarrel
- discolored, faded
- of
->>
- fast, firmly connected, not loose
- 1. spring (tensile) 2. feather 3. ferry
- auction
- a guy, a bloke (somewhat unfavorable)
2
(vers/verse
2
3)
- fresh
'cardigan, fleece jacket'
- 1. fat, grease 2. fat, greasy
- dirty, not clean; bad-tasting
- 1. a flower 2. blue purple
- wall (of a room)
2
- 1. mitt 2. for, because
(in de war
- confused)
- 1. laundry 2. wax
- 1. I was 2. I'm washing/doing laundry)
(ik waste
- 1. I washed up 2. I was doing laundry)
- 1. contraction (birth) 2. woe to ...
2
('t went
2
- you get used to it)
- law
2
- wedge
2
- white
- miracle
2 (ik word
2
- I become, I am being)
->>
- sausage
2
3
- hem, finished fabric edge
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-D
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