After some time around non-native languages, something which you'll notice is that they've what seem like "traps" designed to make confusion and/or cause miscommunications.
I guess our native languages do have these traps too, but being used to them we don't even notice - in the end of the day, on real world usage the right meaning ends up being clear for context (or we just miscommunicate anyway and life follows).
Today's trap from my morning Japanese goes to "yuube" - the same word (or two words with the same pronunciation?) has two meanings dangerously close but different to each other:
昨夜 last night
夕べ evening
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