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Fernweh
Standing at an airport departures board, reading out Windhoek and Montevideo, and aching to go somewhere you have never been.
German words for feelings
8 German words for specific feelings, each with a definition, pronunciation and origin.
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Fremdschämen
The urge to cover your face when someone else embarrasses themselves and does not seem to notice.
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Freudenfreude
Your friend texts that she passed the exam you failed last month, and after one sour second you are honestly glad for her.
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Glückschmerz
The sting when the coworker who coasted all year is called up at the holiday party to collect the bonus you wanted.
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Schadenfreude
The small lift when the car that sped past you on the shoulder turns up a mile later, pulled over, with a police car behind it.
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Sehnsucht
Hearing a song from when you were sixteen in a supermarket aisle and wanting, badly, something you cannot name or get back.
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Waldeinsamkeit
Two hours past the last marked trail in a beech wood, the road noise gone and nobody since the car park, and glad of it.
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Wanderlust
Refreshing a page of cheap flights at midnight with a full week of work ahead, wanting to be on any road but this one.