Sentences with phrase «linguistic false friend»
(««Garmoshka», by the way, is a diminutive of гармон («garmon») / гармоника («garmonika»); as with the Finnish «harmonikka», the Russian «garmonika» means accordion, not harmonica (an example of a linguistic false friend.»).
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