False friends

1. Der Misserfolg / Das Scheitern dieses Projekts bedeutete das Ende meiner Karriere.

2. She always tried to learn from her mistakes.

“Failure” can also mean Versäumnis or Versager(in). The reason the words “failure” and Fehler sound so similar is that they both go back to the old French verb falir/faillir, meaning “be lacking” (fehlen) and “not succeed”.