false friends

false friends (ord som har formelle likheter uten å bety det samme): for a learner of a foreign language, a false friend is a word in the foreign language which resembles a word in one’s mother tongue, but has a different meaning. For a Norwegian learner of English, the following words may be false friends: actual (resembles 'aktuell', but means 'real'), eventually (resembles 'eventuelt', but means 'at last'), grin (resembles 'grine', but means 'smile'), chin (resembles 'kinn', but refers to the area of your face below your mouth)