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Tommy Carcetti

(43,226 posts)
Mon Oct 25, 2021, 12:09 PM Oct 2021

I need to find that special German word that means that feeling of general unease...

...when you've got a normal and rational President again, but your relief is blunted knowing you still have a highly irrational and dangerous ex-President continuing to cause chaos, harm and division in the background.

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I need to find that special German word that means that feeling of general unease... (Original Post) Tommy Carcetti Oct 2021 OP
Angst Jazz Jon Oct 2021 #1
That was my guess Ritabert Oct 2021 #3
Angst is an English word Klaralven Oct 2021 #16
It's an English word assimilated from German: Emrys Oct 2021 #17
Once a word is in the English dictionary, it's English. We're not picky like the French. Klaralven Oct 2021 #18
English doesn't borrow words. Happy Hoosier Oct 2021 #22
It's literally angst, as the previous responder noted greenjar_01 Oct 2021 #2
Schitzfeeling. Sneederbunk Oct 2021 #4
I don't know if there's a German word. Haggard Celine Oct 2021 #5
weltschmerz? sop Oct 2021 #6
That is the one I was thinking of Sanity Claws Oct 2021 #10
Unbehagen? Paladin Oct 2021 #7
Wir Leben Immer...Noch Celerity Oct 2021 #21
Untereasenschnurfen. LastDemocratInSC Oct 2021 #8
mittelschmerz milestogo Oct 2021 #9
Uh no. That's what my inflamed appendix was misdiagnosed as when I was 16... Hekate Oct 2021 #13
Angst hits the nail on the head bottomofthehill Oct 2021 #11
Angst hits the nail on the head bottomofthehill Oct 2021 #12
It should translate as "10 minutes before the end of the horror film" (nt) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2021 #14
Hitler. roamer65 Oct 2021 #15
. BeerBarrelPolka Oct 2021 #19
Trumpf lagomorph777 Oct 2021 #20
Fahrfergnungen Bucky Oct 2021 #23

Emrys

(7,287 posts)
17. It's an English word assimilated from German:
Tue Oct 26, 2021, 08:45 AM
Oct 2021
History and Etymology for angst

Noun

borrowed from German Angst, going back to Middle High German angest, going back to Old High German angust "distress, worry, anxiety," going back to West Germanic *angusti- (whence also Old Frisian ongesta, ongosta "anxiety, danger," Middle Dutch anxt, anxte), derivative, with a noun suffix *-ti- or *-sti-, of the Germanic base *angu- seen in Old English enge "narrow," ange "distressing," Old High German ango "anxious" ...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/angst
 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
18. Once a word is in the English dictionary, it's English. We're not picky like the French.
Tue Oct 26, 2021, 08:58 AM
Oct 2021

A large part of the English vocabulary is borrowed.

There aren't really any non-English words; just ones we haven't borrowed yet.

Happy Hoosier

(7,454 posts)
22. English doesn't borrow words.
Tue Oct 26, 2021, 09:55 AM
Oct 2021

It's sneaks up behind them, bashes them on the head, and they wake to find themselves in the latest edition of Webster's.

Haggard Celine

(16,864 posts)
5. I don't know if there's a German word.
Mon Oct 25, 2021, 12:15 PM
Oct 2021

After all, Hitler didn't live to cause chaos after the war. If he had, the Germans would have executed him. Too bad Donald and Malaria didn't kill themselves in the bunker after the election.

Hekate

(90,956 posts)
13. Uh no. That's what my inflamed appendix was misdiagnosed as when I was 16...
Mon Oct 25, 2021, 08:25 PM
Oct 2021

I see your smiley, though.

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