Língua Inglesa Falso Cognatos | False Cognates
Ano: 2025
Banca: Universidade Estadual de Santa Catarina (UNESC)
Cognates and false cognates can either facilitate or hinder the understanding of texts in English, depending on the context in which they are used. Regarding the topic, mark T for true statements and F for false ones.

(__)The word library means "livraria" in Portuguese.
(__)The term actually is equivalent to "atualmente" in Portuguese.
(__)The word parents refers to "parentes" in Portuguese.
(__)The word education is a true cognate that means "educação" or "ensino" in Portuguese.

The correct sequence is:
Língua Inglesa Falso Cognatos | False Cognates
Ano: 2025
Banca: Fundação para o Vestibular da Universidade Estadual Paulista (VUNESP)

Read the text to answer the question from. 


    It happens that the publication of this edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary comes 250 years after the appearance of the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, compiled by Samuel Johnson. Much has changed since then. The English that Johnson described in 1755 was relatively well defined, still essentially the national property of the British. Since then, it has dispersed and diversified, has been adopted and adapted as an international means of communication by communities all over the globe. English is now the name given to an immensely diverse variety of different usages. This...

Língua Inglesa Verbos | Verbs Passado perfeito | Past perfect Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension + 3
Ano: 2023
Banca: UPENET/IAUPE
Read the text 1 to answer question.
Text 1

Worldwide changes in food and eating habits
American fast food has certainly affected Korea. You can find American fast food restaurants everywhere and many young people don’t appreciate traditional Korean food anymore. Koreans are now using western ingredients such as ketchup, mayonnaise and butter to cook regular meals. Salad dressing, something we never used before, is also popular now.
The problem is that American companies sell their food along with American culture. Manners in restaurants are not the same before. I can give you two examples of this. Traditionally Koreans don’t use individual plates for eating main dishes. We have always eaten from one bowl, but now some people think that this habit is unsanitary.
Tip...
Língua Inglesa Falso Cognatos | False Cognates
Ano: 2023
Banca: UPENET/IAUPE

Text 4 (for questions 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46)

                                                             

                                                                       Social networks


Going into the small room at the end of the corridor, Roberta sat down _______ 1 the computer. It was the computer she had bought when her old one’s hard disk had started to go wrong. Her new computer was a laptop with a lot of extra ...

Língua Inglesa Falso Cognatos | False Cognates
Ano: 2023
Banca: IBFC
A palavra “actually” é considerada um falso cognato. Asinale, dentre as alternativas, a única que pode realmente ser considerada um cognato.
Língua Inglesa Falso Cognatos | False Cognates
Ano: 2023
Banca: IBFC
Observe a tabela, a seguir, e assinale a alternativa que apresenta a única palavra que não pode ser considerada um cognato. 
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Língua Inglesa Falso Cognatos | False Cognates
Ano: 2023
Banca: AMEOSC

Consider a sentence below:

"I intend to support the next mayor of the city".


How many false cognates did you find in the sentence above?


Língua Inglesa Falso Cognatos | False Cognates
Ano: 2022
Banca: Quadrix

According to the text, judge the item. 


“Eventually” (line 22) is an example of a false cognate and it could be correctly replaced by finally. 

Língua Inglesa Falso Cognatos | False Cognates
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
Given that cognates are words from different languages that have the same meaning and descend from the same morpheme, choose the option that consists only of cognates between English and Portuguese taken from text 4A1-I.