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[False friends #6]
Identify the false friends in the sentences below and correct them. In addition you should state the Norwegian word that gives rise to the English-Norwegian false friend pairs (use its base form). (All sentences, or sentence fragments, can be found in the corpus.)

Example: The borrower and spouse have correctly completed the blanket. (x)
Corrected sentence with Norwegian false friend in brackets:
The borrower and spouse have correctly completed the form. (blankett)

Remember that you may introduce new errors if you add or delete letters or spaces that have nothing to do with the exercise; e.g. if you accidentally delete the "t" in "the" it will count as an error.


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