23-false Friends Flashcards
Abortion
El aborto
To abort / have a miscarriage
Abortar
Absolutely
Absolutamente
Not at all / absolutely not
En absoluto
Suitable
Adecuado
To surprise/ astonish
Admirar
To wave
Agitar
To wait (for)
Aguardar
To make / get upset / angry
Alterar(se)
Old person
Anciano/a
To bring / take place early
Anticipar(se)
Ancient
Antiguo
To be present (NOT to assist)
Asistir
Attendance
La asistencia
Drums (in a band)
La batería
Gross
Bruto
Saucepan
La cacerola
Baby-sitter
El canguro
To jam / disrupt
Colapsar
Jam / blockage
El colapso
Committee
La comisión
Comfort
La comodidad
Full (hotel, bus etc)
Completo
Lecture
La conferencia
Pane of glass / window pane
El cristal
Raw / uncooked / untreated
Crudo
Question (to be discussed, not asked)
Cuestión
Misfortune / bad luck
La desgracia
Unfortunately
Por desgracia
To amuse / be amused
Divertir(se)
In fact / indeed / actually
Efectivamente / en efecto
Period of time / season
La época
Cowshed
El establo
Dreadful / awful
Fatal
Sentence (not phrase)
La frase
Inspired / brilliant
Genial
Bad temper
Genio
Not to know / to be ignorant of
Ignorar
Prince / princess
El infante / la infanta
Memory (mechanism)
La memoria
Coin / currency
La moneda
Prayer
La oración
Prívate
Particular
Advertising
La propaganda
Portion (eg of food)
La ración
Royal
Real
Diet
El régimen
To search / inspect (eg baggage)
Registrar
So-so (eg not too bad)
Regular
To ask for
Solicitar
To happen
Sueceder
To make yourself comfortable
Acomodar(se)
To put / go to bed / lie down
Acostar(se)
Present (in time)
Actual
To face up to
Afrontar
To warn
Avisar
Bullet
La bala
To rock / sway
Balancear(se)
(Large) ball eg. Football
El balón
Brave
Bizarro
Field
El campo
Folder / portfolio
La carpeta
Chance
Casual
By chance
Casualmente / por casualidad
Chance / coincidence
La casualidad
Christmas card
El c(h)rismas
Necklace
El collar
Commitment / engagement / predicament
El compromiso
To commit oneself / get oneself into a predicament
Comprometerse
To make / become more specific
Concretar(se)
Crime / offence
El delito
Annoyance / displeasure
El disgusto
To become pregnant
Embarazarse
Pregnant
Embarazada
To do with energy
Energético
Dependent upon circumstances
Eventual
Success
El éxito
To annoy / get annoyed
Fastidiar(se)
Annoyance
El fastidio
Crème caramel
El flan
Desire / wish
La gana
To wish / to feel like doing something
Tener ganas de
Elegant / graceful
Gentil
Pleasure / delight / taste
El gusto
Decent / chaste
Honesto
Honest / honourable
Honrado
Language
El idioma
To retire
Jubilarse
Long
Largo
Letter of alphabet / handwriting / words of a song
La letra
Mad
Loco
To annoy / irritate
Molestar
Annoyance / irritation
La molestia
Knot
El nudo
Gift / present
El obsequio
Plot of land
La parcela
Relative / relation
El pariente / la parienta
To prick / puncture
Pinchar
To tread / trample
Pisar
Condom
El preservativo
To seek / to try to
Pretender
Teacher
El profesor / la profesora
To take away/off / remove
Quitar(se)
(Short) while
El rato
To remember
Recordar
Proverb / saying
El refrán
Income
La renta
To stir / mix up / turn around
Revolver
Clothes
La ropa
Healthy
Sano
Heel (of shoe) or cheque
El talón
Ink / dye
La tinta
Storm
La tormenta
