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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Rambi who wrote (628)1/6/1998 10:41:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 4711
 
Penni -

Actually, no, "Schadenfreude" would not be a good example. It is a fairly straightforward (if compound) noun, meaning pleasure (Freude)in pain (Schaden). And that's it.

Verbs like "aufheben," however, thrilled our friend Hegel because they could mean so many, often contradictory, things (like your example of winding up a clock vs. winding up a task). In philosophy, "aufheben" can be used to signify beginning something (as in lifting, taking up) as well as to signify ending something. Or so I recall. My German was/is/and probably always will be creaky.
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