A1🔤 Letters M & N
Italian word
nuotare
to swim
Looks like
notate / nauseate
to annotate; to cause nausea
⚠️ The trap
Sounds nothing like 'swim' — so learners default to guessing a similar English word. 'Nuotare' has no meaningful English cognate; it must simply be memorised.
To say "to annotate; to cause nausea" in Italian:
annotare (for notate); nauseare (for nauseate)
"nuotare" in English means:
to swim
Example
"Mio figlio nuota ogni mattina."
"My son swims every morning."
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