Italian Words which are almost the same as English

I am 'ploughing ahead - There's an English idiom - with learning Italian on Duolingo. Many Italian words end in o, for the masculine,  for feminine, or e. Plurals may end in i.

I also looked at a bilingual brochure from Commune di Cannara. It is pretty obvious - another English idiom - that via is way or road, ponte is bridge

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Italian - English

aeroplano - aeroplane

causa - cause

Centro - centre

Fertili - fertile

dignita - dignity

importante - important

Lago - lake

minuti - minutes (i is plural, like spaghetti)

passageri - passengers

poverta - poverty

recente - recent

ricchezza - wealth - a richness of letters c and z

successo - success

timore - fear - like timit

viso - face - like visor

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False Friends, as the French say, in language

French
The French have a word for it, translating into English as false friends, words which sound alike in two languages but are not the same.

Grand
In French grand is not grand (important) but merely large.

German
The German word Stadt is not state but city.
Mexico Stadt is not Mexico state but Mexico city.
Gross is German is large, but in English the word has negative connotations.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author, tutor and English language teacher.