r/FalseFriends

803 archived posts · Mar 2014 – Jul 2026

False Friends

r/FalseFriends

A place to share examples of false friends, false cognates, and other lexical irony (calques, puns) between languages.

Created Mar 18, 2014

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803Archived posts

Welcome to r/FalseFriends!

This sub-reddit is a place for false friends, false cognates, puns, calques, and any other ironic observations you happen to make about pairs/groups of languages.

Check out the Wiki, a comprehensive archive of all submissions, organized by post type and then by language!

Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/FalseFriends/wiki/

Please include a tag in your post. Identify the languages referenced in your post and provide an English translation. If possible, please provide words in their natural/native writing systems.

Tags:

[FF] for False Friends

[FC] for False Cognates

[Pun] for bilingual Puns

[Calque] for Calques

[Meta] for posts about r/FalseFriends

For examples of correctly-formatted content, see this post here.

Essentially,

DON'T SUBMIT THIS:

[FF] 'Kwiecień' and 'Květen' are false friends!

SUBMIT THIS INSTEAD:

[FF] 'Kwiecień', from Polish, refers to the month of April, while 'Květen', from Czech, refers to the month of May.

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