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Words from diffferent languages that means something else in yours.

Juha (finnish name) means Soup on Croatian.

and bonus one : 'keks' is cookie in Croatian.
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keksi is cookie in finnish.

There are many words in finnish that also exists in other languages I have noticed.
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There is a bunch of false friends between spanish and polish
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Gówno means shit but it turns out there's a whole country named afer it
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>>51111541
Can means dog in spanish.

>>51111979
Kurwa = Whore in polish
Curva = Curve in spanish
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Fukati means to blow in Czech (like blow a balloon, you immature faggots!), but it means to fuck in Slovene.
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homo is gay in finnish!!! !! !
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>>51111541
"bite" in english means dick in french.
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>>51112003
I will burn you alive for what you posted!
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>>51112219
OP is straight in croatian
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>>51112003
freshen ya drink, gówno
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>>51111541
"here" means testicle in hungarian
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>>51111541
It seems that Galina (chicken) is a Russian name
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>>51111541
In Russian, ukha means "fish soup" too, and keks - "muffin".
French cravate means "neck-tie" but Russian krovat' (pronounced as kravát') means "bed"; meanwile, in Polish (krawatka), Ukrainian (kravatka) and several other languages this word is borrowed from French which is ridiculous to Russian speakers (it means "small bed" in Russian).
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,,Jucha'' is another word for ,,blood'' in polish.
Also ,,juhas'' - mountain sheep herder.
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>>51112479
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galina
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>>51112178
its foukat but close enough
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>>51112627
I'm sure we have a dialect or two where it's proonounced like that.
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Perdu means "I'm farting". Also baran jeval travu but I dunno the original.
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Benis in Finnish means Penis in American.
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>>51111541
Praviti means to tell Slovene.
Rad imeti means to like, to love in Slovene.
Kazati means to show in Slovene.
Voliti means to vote.
Zgoden means early.
Sad means a fruit of the tree.
Ne znam means I'm not able to do something.
Vreme means the weather.
Leto means calendar year.
God means name day.
Zahod means the direction west.
Slažem se (zlažem se) means I tell a lie
Nije (ni je) means 'she is not here'.
Napolje (na polje) means '(on)to the field'
Slovo means goodbye.
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gift means poison
never trust an Anglo
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>>51112800
We have that too. Zagiftati means to poison (someone). It's from a dialect, though.
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red is a color but means "network" in spanish
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"shit" means "shield". "god" means "year". "magazine" means "shop".
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>>51113054
>magazine

wasn't that taken from the French "magasin" though?
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Kull in Estonian means owl
Kulli in Finnish means Benis
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kek: cake
topkek is a brand
meme: boobies
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Bite means dick in French. Was particularly surprising to me the first time I went to England and some restaurant was called something like "super bite".

>>51112485
Don't you have a lot of French loanwords in your language overall, though?
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poo means street in indian
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pussi means bag
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Huevo [uevo] = an egg (Spanish)
Хyeвo [Khuevo] = very bad (Russian) 'fucking bad'
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>>51115494>>51114424
We have a lot of loanwords from Mongolian [13 cent], Dutch [18 cent], French [19 cent], German [20 cent], English [21 cent].
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>>51114465
Nice one
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>>51115856
>Mongolian
From the Turkic languages actually. Mongolian was not widespread in the Golden Horde.
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