False Friends by ShapiroA

More than one novice Spanish speaker has tried to express embarrassment by saying "Yo estoy embarazada." They generally don't get the reaction they were expecting. What does embarazada mean?

"La próxima vez," the listener in question #1 might reply, "utilizar un preservativo." Translate the last word.

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Arirang, and White God are among the winners of what prize at the Cannes Film Festival, whose name means "a particular way of looking at the world" but may look to an English speaker like it lacks conviction?

The German phrase aktuelle Nachrichten, found for example on the websites of the periodicals Bild and Der Spiegel, seems to imply that the events reported by these sites really happened. However, aktuell doesn't mean "actual"; what does it mean?

This sweet treat, often seen at weddings, is called confetti in Italian. Give its common two-word English name, which suggests a probably-false connection with a river and/or country.

The Russian word лунатик is cognate to English "lunatic". However, it refers not to a crazy person, but to someone who engages in what particular behavior most common in children?

If your Portuguese-speaking colleague calls in complaining of constipação, it isn't TMI; he or she is merely suffering from what?

In German and Swedish, you might hear a word that sounds suspiciously like "smoking". In fact, you've heard correctly (and it's spelled the same way too) -- but it's a noun, referring to what type of object?

Italian riporto doesn't mean "report"; far from it. Should you look it up in a pictorial dictionary, you might find a drawing of Charles, Prince of Wales, Al Davis, or Donald Trump. That's because riporto means what?

This German noun, which an Englishman might take to be a sin, merely expresses a wish. Its also has an adjectival form in both languages; the English adjective can mean "vigorous", while the German adjective means "funny" (and is a common surname). Give the noun.

Bibit pauper et aegrotus,
bibit exul et ignotus,
bibit puer, bibit canus,
bibit praesul et decanus,
bibit soror, bibit frater,
bibit anus, bibit mater,
bibit ista, bibit ille,
bibunt centum, bibunt mille.

This is a stanza from a drinking song, part of the text of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. "Bibit X" means "X drinks" (so: the poor man drinks, the sick man drinks, the exile and the unknown drink...). Identify, in English, the 11th drinker out of the 16 mentioned here.

Despite hearing it probably 500 times during a trip to Prague, I remained positively flustered by the fact that ano in Czech means what?