Trübsal
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German trüebesal, from Old High German truobisal (11th c.). Equivalent to trüb (“turbid, troubled, sad”) + -sal.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Trübsal f (genitive Trübsal, plural Trübsale)
- (formal, literary, except in Trübsal blasen) a sad, troubled emotional state
- Mein bester Freund steht mir auch in Zeiten der Trübsal bei.
- My best friend stands by me, even in times of sadness
- 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One][1]:
- Ihr beyden die ihr mir so oft, / In Noth und Trübsal, beygestanden, / Sagt was ihr wohl, in deutschen Landen, / Von unsrer Unternehmung hofft?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Trübsal [feminine]
Further reading
[edit]- “Trübsal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Trübsal”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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