18 июн. 2023 г. · 37 votes, 66 comments. Homophones are words in a language that have different spellings or meanings but sound the same (ie, load/lode).

8 мая 2019 г. · Chances are they exist in all languages, and I wouldn't say English has particularly many of them. Japanese certainly has way more.

19 дек. 2022 г. · Modern metropolitan french has a tremendous amount of homophones. For example, the words sans, cent and sang are all ponounced the same.

23 февр. 2023 г. · So yeah, not only do other languages have plenty of homonyms, frequently they're more full of homonyms than English by a wide margin.

24 мая 2022 г. · I know that some languages have a lot more homophones than others. The number in Mandarin Chinese is very different from the number in English, for example.

27 дек. 2021 г. · It's fairly unlikely that any language will have none at all, but statistically you might expect a language with an extremely large number ...

21 июл. 2022 г. · There are definitely some languages that have more homophones that others. The ability for some languages to cope with homophones is better than ...

5 апр. 2015 г. · I've been wondering about homophones between languages (eg 'soy' in English and Spanish, or 'dry' in English vs 'drei' in German) and whether there are any ...

18 июл. 2024 г. · Create sentence cards where these words appear. By context you should be able to identify which meaning the word holds.

3 июн. 2019 г. · Even languages with regular spelling have homophones. Italian, for example, the present-tense conjugations of avere ("to have") begin with h ...