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Fito is currently learning English. Last week he learned that in English, pretty much like in Spanish, there are some prefixes that can be used to form new words. For example, consider the words "treat" and "understand". If we append "mis" in front of them, we get "mistreat", which means treat someone/something badly, and "misunderstand", which means understand something wrong. In Spanish, this will be equivalent to adding the prefix "mal" in front of the words "tratar" (treat) and "entender" (understand), the results would be "maltratar" which means mistreat and "malentender", which means misunderstand.
He realized, that usually, this kind of prefix in English have an equivalent in Spanish. In this case, the equivalent to "mis" in English would be "mal" in Spanish. Another example is "un" (English) / "des" (Spanish):
There are many more prefixes: "dis", "pre", "con", "com", "uni", "inter", "sub" , "re"..., etc, but sometimes Fito is not sure about the equivalent prefix in Spanish. Therefore he wants to search in a Dictionary for some pairs of prefixes, how many words do exist such that the English word starts with the first prefix and the word in Spanish (with the same mining) starts with the second prefix.