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I came across the following headline in a Spanish newspaper on 11/7 after Biden was declared winner of the US election: "Biden derrota a Trump tras un agónico recuento". I had thought recuento means recount, but it turns out it also means count. If a Spaniard who was not following the US election sees this headline, would he understand it as "count" and not "recount" ? I know of no other language in which a verb and the corresponding repetition verb are the same. Is this a common source of confusion for Spanish speakers ?