What word from German means ‘delighting in another’s misfortune’?
Technical translation translation. Such words or phrases are composed of concepts that are not easily translated from one language to another. A word is considered "untranslatable" when there is either no direct corresponding word in the target language, requiring the word to be described or when important cultural connotations from the source language are not properly communicated through the target word. For example, a common example in English of an untranslatable word is the German word "schadenfreude", which means to exhibit joy as a result of someone else's misfortune. This word exemplifies untranslatability due to the lack of a corresponding word; however
Misfortune (folk tale) damage and warned them about their behavior, and married Misfortune instead of his betrothed bride. Meanwhile, Misfortune's parents had regained their kingdom, but were distressed by the thought of their daughter. So the prince sent word to them. Misfortune (folk tale) Misfortune () is an Italian fairy tale, from Palermo, collected by Italo Calvino in his "Italian Folktales". Another telling of the tale appears under the title "Unfortunate" in A Book of Enchantments and Curses, by Ruth Manning-Sanders. A king was captured and dethroned, and the queen had to make shift as best she could with her seven daughters. A