Not necessarily especially if you've learned the language at school, analytically rather than organically.

These words/phrases are wildly different in other languages, and thus well distinct in the mind of non-native folks.

For example, in French:

were -> étais; etions, etiez, étaient (2nd person, singular; 1st, 2nd and 3rd person, plural)

we're -> nous sommes

where -> où