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German false friends game: is a Gift a present?
Some German words look exactly like English ones and mean something else. Das Gift is poison and das Handy is your phone. Can you spot the rest?
What does it really mean?
poison
the mobile phone
the boss
to get, to receive
advice
possibly
sensitive
the secondary school
False friends are words that look like a word you already know but mean something different. German and English share many roots, so they are full of them.
Learning them early saves you from funny mistakes, like telling your host you brought them poison or that you want to become a coffee.
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False friends game: words that trick you
A free game with false friends between English and German, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese: words that look the same and mean something else.
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German compound words game: what is a hand shoe?
A free game with funny German compound nouns: a hand shoe is a glove and a lazy animal is a sloth. Guess ten words from their literal meaning.
Games, German, All levels
Untranslatable German words: the game
A free game with German words English has no single word for: Fernweh, Kummerspeck, Fremdschämen, Feierabend. Guess what each one means.
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