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    What is a false friend in linguistics?

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    A word that looks similar in two languages but has different meaningsCorrect
    A common grammatical error
    A word that does not exist in the original language
    A term invented by translators

    False friends are words from different languages that are similar in form but differ in meaning, such as 'embarrassed' (embarrassed in English) and 'pregnant' (pregnant in Spanish), or 'actual' (real in English) and 'actual' (current in Spanish).