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B1🧠 Personality

Italian word

ingenuo

naive, innocent, gullible — lacking worldly experience

Looks like

ingenious

clever, original, inventive

⚠️ The trap

MAJOR FALSE FRIEND. 'Ingenuo' = naive/gullible. 'Ingenious' = brilliantly clever. The correct Italian for ingenious is 'ingegnoso'. Never confuse these.

To say "clever, original, inventive" in Italian:

ingegnoso (for ingenious)

"ingenuo" in English means:

naive, innocent, gullible — lacking worldly experience

Example

"Era così ingenuo da credere a tutto quello che gli dicevano."

"He was so naive that he believed everything they told him."

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