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submitted 5 months ago by silverchase@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 months ago

In German, we have "umfahren" (to drive around) and "umfahren" (to run somebody over).

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've got a pretty tunny one in Spanish: jamás. Its definitions are:

[–] teft@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Huesped is like that, too.

It means both host and guest.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They get away with it because in any case there’s normally only one obvious dust-related thing to do.

[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

But what if I want to dust a bookshelf so it looks older and unkempt?

[–] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

How do you make a redirection in another language? In French, le page should be https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89nantios%C3%A9mie.