False friends in German and English

Some of the German conjunctions and basic adverbs might be a bit confusing for someone who already knows English, because there are quite a few false friends among them:

German English
auch also
also so (when conjunction, as in “so let’s go”)
so so (when adverb, as in “so good”)
wo where
wer who
wenn if
wenn “when” in conditional
wann “when” in question
wie as
als than
dann then
denn because
 
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