Saw this article titled “As Toyota stumbles, schadenfreude lurks” and thought, “what the hell does schadenfreude mean?”
So, went and did a quick look up and found it on dictionary and, well, realized I don’t use that word enough, I forgot it way back when, or I am just dumb.
Either way, now you know so you can use it on a going-forward basis.
That’s one of the word that made it from the German language into English. It expresses exactly what it wants to express. And I you say that you would need at least 5 words in english to say the same thing without having a word like schadenfreude.
Another “powerful” word is “schöntrinken”. Do you know what that means?