Talk:Spanish/Common False Cognates

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I live in Spain and speak Spanish (though I'm a native English speaker). I always here the term "complexión" on the news to describe physical build i.e.: "complexión fuerte" is used to describe a fat person without being rude. I have never heard it being used in a psychological sense.

The term "actualmente" means currently, "actual" means current. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.40.168.19 (talk • contribs).
 * I've fixed actual, and I too have only heard complexión as a reference to someone's physical build. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 22:58, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

How about adding simpático as in that it doesn't mean sympathetic?

False Genders
See also Firespeaker.org for a list of false genders in various romance languages, including Spanish. Jade Knight (talk) 13:56, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

False cognates are not false friends
According to the article in Wikipedia false cognate, the term false cognates is used incorrectly here. For example, Librería and Library are false friends, but true cognates, for cognates are words that have a common etymological origin, and both Librería and Library are from Latin liber, etc. --Rostofanych (discuss • contribs) 14:29, 5 February 2014 (UTC)