Looking for someone familiar with the German language?

Question

There is a word in German that describes the good feeling one gets when something bad happens to someone else - what is it??

I don't believe there is an equivalent word in the English language.

Answer 1

You refer to "Schadenfreude" which of course is an English word, too, having been naturalised as a loanword almost a century ago now.

Also, I believe there is an English equivalent, albeit more often used as a verb (which the German noun "Schadenfreude" can't be turned into) than as a noun: I mean "to gloat" with the infrequent nominalisation "the gloating"

Answer 2

There is a word in English and it is schadenfreude.

Definition:

gloating at somebody else's bad luck: malicious or smug pleasure taken in somebody else's misfortune

Answer 3

schadenfreude...