French-Italian False Cognates

[Solairne]

Buon Giorno~

I'm an American that speaks near-native French (as well as a good amount of German). I've looked online and so far only found a list of false cognates between English and Italian (most of which look exactly like false cognates between English and French : attendre vs assister vs aider) and I was wondering if any of you kind folk could give me some cognates between French and Italian that might be a throw off.

I'd also love a list of pitfalls in learning Italian for somebody who speaks French, such as grammar issues. I'm not so much looking for problems for an English speaker learning Italian.

Thanks!

[Solairne]

2 days and no response? ;_;

[ILuvEire]

2 days and no response? ;_;

Sorry!

This forum usually is pretty slow though.

And I can't really think of any false cognates...

[Solairne]

I can't find anything online in either English or French, I'm starting to wonder if they're all true cognates lol

[yvonne_v]

You can find a list here, but it's in Italian.

In the first column you find the French word, in the second the Italian word it looks like, in the third what the French actually means and in the last one how to translate the Italian word (the one in the second column) properly.

Another false friend that isn't on that list is ville. In Italian you say "città" for "city" and "villa" for, well, villa

[yvonne_v]

Oops, I've just noticed I gave you a list of false friends while you were actually looking for false cognates.

[Solairne]

Oops, I've just noticed I gave you a list of false friends while you were actually looking for false cognates.

D: Are false friends and false cognates not the same thing? I hope I haven't been making a mistake saying them interchangeably the past few years...

The list you gave me was exactly what I was looking for. Very interesting!

Thanks!

[yvonne_v]

D: Are false friends and false cognates not the same thing? I hope I haven't been making a mistake saying them interchangeably the past few years...

They're not, false cognates are words that look the same and have the same meaning but have different roots.
Don't worry though, according to wikipedia it's quite common to mistake the two ("The term "false cognate" is sometimes used incorrectly for false friend.")

False friend
False cognate

[Solairne]

D: Are false friends and false cognates not the same thing? I hope I haven't been making a mistake saying them interchangeably the past few years...

They're not, false cognates are words that look the same and have the same meaning but have different roots.
Don't worry though, according to wikipedia it's quite common to mistake the two ("The term "false cognate" is sometimes used incorrectly for false friend.")

False friend
False cognate

Interesting, so a false cognate and be a "true" friend...
I learned something today! lol

[ILuvEire]

Oh, so like English "name" and Japanese "namae?"