alt Hacker NewsThat was my first thought too! So many things in old-english are very very close to modern German, so it's sometimes surprising to see these false-friends.
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shermantanktop • today at 2:32 PM
Oh, you mean “Falsche Freunde”?
I have no idea how to say that idiomatically in German, but it struck me that those are both “true” friends.
Contrary to what GP said, they're not false friends. They're a (lost) part of English's Germanic roots, shared with modern German.
Edit: Check out the Proto-Germanic personal pronouns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Proto-Germanic_person...