Today’s Danish word of the day might be a false friend, depending on what business you’re in. The Danish entreprenør is, like “entrepreneur” in English, a loan word from French. The French word entrepreneur comes from the verb entreprendre means something like “to take on a job”. As such, the concepts of “entering an agreement” and “taking a job” are combined in the word entrepreneur and it is this spirit of the word that should be kept in mind when you come across its Danish equivalent, entreprenør. AdvertisementThis is where entreprenør can be a false friend, because it only applies in Danish to businesses in the construction sector.