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    False Friend (Falso Amico)

    What False Friend (Falso Amico) means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.

    Definition of False Friend (Falso Amico)

    A word in a foreign language that looks similar to a word in the mother tongue but has a different meaning.
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