Can we target the same keyword phrase?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Athanasios Giannias: Hi everyone,
  
  Having a bilingual site, can we target the same keyword phrase on both versions? Is this harmful from an SEO point of view or confusing for Google?
  
  Thanks everyone! ;
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  Tim Capper: Yes you can as I assume the other site it properly translated by a native speaker.
  
  You may realize that the "same keyword" might not make sense when translated, thats why you need to have it properly translated.
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  Athanasios Giannias: Thanks +Tim Capper ;Having ecommerce site, translated by a native speaker,  ;the keyword phrase for eg. montain bikes Gt , may be appropriate in both languages! Is it safe to use it on both versions? ;
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  Tim Capper: Yes thas fine >> And remember to use href=lang
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  Athanasios Giannias: perfect
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  PromozSEO: Athanasios Giannias, as +Tim Capper ; said, you must have to use hreflang to point out different language pages.
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  Athanasios Giannias: Thanks everyone ;
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  Mohd Shadab-Troikaa: +Athanasios Giannias ;NO you should not target the same keywords in bilingual sites as both languages have different ranking Keywords, You should do through research and then choose the keywords in both sites.
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  Athanasios Giannias: +Mohd Shadab-Troikaa ;the keyword phrase mercedes c-class or mountain bikes Gt can be same in both languages.
  Its true that the search results is very different when at least one word of a keyword phrase is in native tongue or even when one word is native written with english characters. ;
  Hope that was not confusing. ;