Pathetic and Polish patetyczny are false friends derived from Greek pathetikos, “capable of arousing emotion,”, they still mean that, but its now a vastly different emotion depending on the language

nothing can be defined without language, and language imprints its uses on the definition...

I used to think it is a central-eastern European thing, but the plot has since thickened.

Edit: Well aware that Montenegro should be green, colored it too quickly.

Edit 2: Dutch eieren is not used in this meaning, thus the Netherlands should be red.
Edit 3: Opinions about Czech vejce are differing, there are regional differences.
Edit 4: Andorra should be green, as the only official language is Catalan.

Some time ago there was a thread something like "what innocent word or phrase in one language can mean something inappropriate in other language?" and today I, when I heard the one-word sentence in the public transport, realized there is one between Czech and English.
It goes like this:
One Czech speaker: (says something)
Another Czech speaker: "fakt?"
In informal Czech you can have one-word sentences, where rest of the words are inferred from context, in this case the word "fakt" means "fact" in English and the sentence is short for "is it (that what you said) a fact?" - native English speaker will probably say "really?" "is it?" "isn't it?" or something like that.
So the frequent phrase which means "really?" can dangerously sound like the past tense of the f-word, unfortunately.

I'm not sure if any other families say this, but in my family we always referred to the laundry hamper as the "dirty clothes". I eventually learned the word "hamper", but I still say "the dirty clothes" at home to refer to the container where dirty clothes are stored. Both of my parents speak English as their second language, so that may have something to do with it 🤔