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Funny, the same confusion exists in French "concurrence" can mean either "concurrency" or "competition". Here the meaning one aimed for was indeed "competition"

• kiliantics 9y ago
  German too: competition is "Konkurrenz", though concurrency would be "Gleichzeitigkeit" - literally, same-time-ness
  • CaptainZapp 9y ago
    While we're onto German, I always thought that eventually is the most confusing English word for a German speaker; an evil twin, so to speak. While the German eventuell means possibly, the English word means that something will happen definitely, but at a later, unspecified time. This can be confusing even to people who are well versed in both languages.
    • kiliantics 9y ago
      That one definitely confused me for far too long. If you've never read it, Mark Twain has an excellent little piece on German: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html
• azernik 9y ago
  In Spanish, I believe it's only used to mean competition.