If they are, how do you disambiguate the two meanings in speech?


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  1. No….in Italian ‘uomo’ and ‘donna’ are man and woman.

    ‘Marito’ and ‘Moglie’ are husband and wife.

  2. Yes, man and vrouw

    you’d say the dutch word voor “my” in front of it usually to differentiate.

  3. In French, it is the same word for the woman only : Femme.

    For the man, it is Homme and Mari.

  4. Czech:
    muž (man) manžel (husband) // žena (woman) manželka (wife)

    but you will often hear žena being used for wife, it is commonplace

    edit: corrected my autocorrect from Czechia

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