English words that conflict with your language.

[Husar]

1) gift, which means a present in English is spelled and pronounced exactly like the German word for poison. There's just so many possibilities for confusion there if you are not careful.

Great example, forgot about that.

3) eventually. That one is tricky for Germans as well. We have the word eventuell in German which means that something might or might not happen. While eventually means that it will definetly (yeah, yeah, I don't know how to write that word) happen. So a lot of people mix that up as well.

This one confused me as well at first, though I got used to it eventually.
And by the way, it's "definitely".


Êntrèé or however it's spelled sounds too much like "entry" for it to be a main course.