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Abil Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

A sense of schadenfreude

The government, which acts like a colonial ruler when it comes to the province, may feel a sense of schadenfreude when we are locked in a fratricidal conflict, a by-product of the accord, but it cannot run away from its responsibility to make good on its promises.

How about this sentence? Has German word schadenfreude been used correctly here?
  

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Probably. It means being pleased when others suffer misfortune, and is used as a word in English.

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  • Probably.
  • It means being pleased when others suffer misfortune, and is used as a word in English.
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Probably. It means being pleased when others suffer misfortune, and is used as a word in English.
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Thanks. Is there any English equivalent of the word?
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No. That's why we use schadenfreude to express the idea.
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