FALSE FRIEND: SENSIBLE

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the Daily Vitamin. I hope you had a wonderful weekend, and I hope your week has started off well.

Today and tomorrow I want to look at a couple of false friends that can cause problems for Spanish speakers. 

Today's word is: sensible (adjective: stress on first syllable)

It means: reasonable and practical.

Example 1:
When you go camping, it's important to wear sensible clothes; they should be practical and comfortable, not fashionable.

Example 2:
Usually you are a sensible person, but today you are very difficult to work with; you are asking us to do things that you yourself would never do.

REMEMBER!
Sensible is a false friend. In Spanish / Catalan it would translate as 'sensato / assenyat' and NOT 'sensible'.

To help you remember the true meaning of this "false friend," I encourage you to write your own sentence and post it on one of our social media sites (Facebook or Bluesky) so that we can give you feedback on your writing. The more you use the word, the more you will remember it.

I hope you have a productive day.

All the best!