pretendere — Italian False Friend
This Italian word does NOT mean what you think
Italian
False friends
Transcript
This Italian word does not mean what you think.
pretendere looks like it means "to pretend".
But it actually means to demand / to expect (often quite firmly).
If you want to say "to pretend" in Italian, you say fingere.
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