In my thesis, I discuss false friends between Slovene and Croatian. In the theoretical part, false friends are defined and divided into chance and semantic false friends. The latter are further subdivided into full and partial false friends. Afterwards, the translation problems and suggestions how to avoid lexical inaccuracies as much as possible, reasons for misunderstanding due to the wrong use of a certain false friends and negative consequences of translation errors are outlined. Next is the practical part, in which pairs of false friends, their meanings, and examples of usage are first presented in the table. Those analysed pairs are from Veliki suvremeni slovensko-hrvatski i hrvatsko-slovenski rječnik and due to the large number of examples, I had to limit myself to just this dictionary and to gerunds and nominal false friends from the letter A to F. The analysis shows that false friends are more prevalent with certain letters than with others and they appear across various thematic fields. There are far more partial than full false friends, which means that most of the examples are polysemous. In nearly half of all partial false friends, the primary meaning of Slovenian word differs from that of the Croatian equivalent. Finally, gender, number, or a difference in word stress can alter a word's meaning.
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