French + Spanish
Learn French and Spanish together, one root at a time.
Most of their everyday words come from the same Latin, and once you see the pattern a French word tells you the Spanish one. Polygelato puts them side by side on every lookup, keeps what you save, and quizzes you from one into the other.
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night
English- Français
la nuit
- Español
la noche
- Italiano
la notte
- Português
a noite
Roots they share
la nuitla noche
← Latin nox, noctis
Both feminine, as the Latin was. English night is a far cousin, through Proto-Indo-European.
le laitla leche
← Latin lac, lactis
One root, two genders: masculine in French, feminine in Spanish. The article is part of the word, which is why Polygelato never strips it.
la fraisela fresa
← French fraise, from Latin fraga (plural of fragum)
Spanish borrowed the word from French, so here the two are not cousins but parent and child.
And the one that trips everyone
embarrasséembarazada
French embarrassé means embarrassed. Spanish embarazada means pregnant.
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