false friends - F

What is this?

There's a certain amount of words which came into both Serbian and English from other languages, mostly Latin, but have different meanings in each language.

Even native English words may mean something else in Serbian, for several reasons:
1) they were misunderstood when coming into Serbian
2) they were understood well first time, but changed their meaning in English meanwhile
3) they were understood well first time, but changed their meaning in Serbian meanwhile

Of course, there is also all the Greek and Latin which is wrongly used in English - just look up "pathetic", and remember how it's used today.

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in English
in Serbian it means
is similar to
which means
fable
basna
fabula
narrative, story (within a literary piece)
fabric
tkanina
fabrika
factory
faculty
nastavno osoblje
fakultet
college
false
lažan, netačan
falš
out of tune (singing or playing); fake
falsify
obesnažiti, dokazati da je netačno
falsifikovati
to forge, counterfeit
familiar
poznat (odnekud)
familijaran
who cares about his family, familial
famous
čuven
famozan
notorious
fan
ventilator
fen
blowdryer
favorite
miljenik, omiljeni
favorit
team which everyone considers having better chances in a match
feud
zavada (među porodicama)
feud
fief
figure (n)
cifra, ličnost, procena, figura
figura
chessman, shape (of body)
figure (v)
sračunati
figurirati
play a role (but not main), be a part of
fill
punjenje
fil
filling for the tart or bell peppers
fill a prescription
izdati lekove
popuniti recept
write a prescription (by entering name, diagnose etc into the empty spaces on the form)
finesse
prefinjenost
finesa
fine point, minor detail
fix
popraviti, namestiti
fiksirati
make immobile, fasten
flipper
peraje, perajasto krilo
fliper
pinball machine
football
američki fudbal
fudbal
soccer
formation
oblikovanje, nastajanje, formiranje
formacija
hierarchical structure and distribution of people in a larger organization, e.g. army
fraction
razlomak
frakcija
faction
frigidaire
marka kućnih uređaja, prave raznu belu tehniku
frižider
refrigerator, generic name for
frogs
žabari, tj Francuzi
žabari
froggers, i.e. Italians
functional
u ispravnom/radnom stanju
funkcionalan
fit for the purpose, utilitarian
functionality
šta sve to ume da uradi, šta mu spada u funkciju
funkcionalnost
property of being well adjusted to the function
funds
sredstva, pare
fondovi
allotments, escrows