Cognatos in French

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Hello friends of Aprender Palavras, in this article we will learn a very important trigger to gain vocabulary of a new language, cognates.

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What is Cognato?

The dictionary Michaelis Online defines Cognato as follows:

cognate
adj sm
1 GRAM, LING It is said of or word that has a common root with another (s); congener.
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So, we see that languages ​​have words that are very similar to others, even though only the spelling changes, and the pronunciation, knowing some cognates helps a language student a lot, if you are discouraged why you can't keep words in your head, cognates can help you regain joy, maintain a rhythm and have fun while learning a language, this article was prepared for you who study French, let's learn some cognates.
NOTE: THERE ARE COGNATES (FRIENDS) AND FALSE COGNATES (FALSE FRIENDS) WORDS THAT SEEM VERY LIKE PORTUGUESE OR OTHER LANGUAGES BUT HAVE A WELL DIFFERENT MEANING IN THIS ARTICLE WE WILL FOCUS ON COGNATES (FRIENDS).

Cognates in French

Portuguese Francês
Animal Animal
Central Central
Final Final
Ideal Ideal
International International
Mental Mental
Original Original
Distance Distance
Arrogance Arrogance
Importance Importance
Intolerance Intolerance
Perseverance Persévérance
Substance Substance
Ambulance Ambulance
Finance Finance
Birthday Anniversaire
Dictionary Dictionnaire
Vocabulary Vocabulaire
Information Information
Conversation Conversation
Celebration Célébration
Banana Banane
Combination Combinaison
Decoration Décoration
Drums Batterie

As we noted these words are not TOTALLY similar but it helps a lot to keep some vocabulary in mind and thus not get discouraged in the studies, but you can not only be with this list, on the internet there are several sites that teach these “friends”, how about using of those words and put together a sentence? you can also put them on a flash card so you don't forget what you've learned. Cognates can be a lot of fun in language studies, use and abuse them to increase your reading comprehension, and ears, and you will undoubtedly be very successful in the studies.