English-Swedish translations for false friend

• falsk vän en
  På svenska är grape en citrusfrukt, medan grape på engelska betyder vindruva, så de är falska vänner.

Definition of false friend

• A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning

Examples

• A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart

Related words

• false friends
• partial false friend
• total false friend