Freude
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German vrowede, from Old High German frouwida, frewida, from Proto-Germanic *frawiþō (“joy”), *frawaz (“joyous”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump; hop”).
Cognate with Dutch vreugde (“joy”), Low German Froide (Paderbornisch) / Freude (Münsterländisch), German Low German Freid (“joy”), Swedish fröjd (“delight; rejoicing”), Danish fryd (“joy”), Norwegian fryd (“joy”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Freude f (genitive Freude, plural Freuden)
Declension
Declension of Freude [feminine]
Hyponyms
- Fahrfreude (“driving pleasure”)
- Herzensfreude (“heartfelt joy”)
- Lebensfreude (“joie de vivre, zest for life, joy of life”)
- Mitfreude (“shared joy”)
- Schadenfreude
Derived terms
- aus Spaß an der Freud
- Des einen Freud ist des anderen Leid
- Des einen Freud', des andern Leid
- Des einen Leid ist des anderen Freud
- Freud und Leid
- Freud und Leid teilen
- freudebringend
- freudenarm
- Freudenbekundung
- Freudenbotschaft
- Freudenfest
- Freudenfeuer
- Freudengefühl
- Freudengesang
- Freudengeschrei
- Freudenhaus
- Freudenhymne
- Freudenjauchzer
- Freudenlied
- freudenlos
- Freudenmädchen
- freudenreich
- Freudenruf
- Freudenschrei
- Freudenspender
- Freudensprung
- Freudentag
- Freudentanz
- Freudentaumel
- Freudenträne
- Freudentröpfchen
- Freudentropfen
- freudestrahlend
- freudig
- Freudigkeit
- freudlos
- Freudlosigkeit
- Freudloskeit
- freudvoll
- Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen
- in Freud und Leid
- Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin
Further reading
- “Freude” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Freude” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Freude” in Duden online
- Freude on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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