Daily Deutsch: Waldeinsamkeit
by Guest Blogger
Daily Deutsch Doodles are a series of illustrations based on contributions to the #dailydeutsch Twitter hashtag, aimed at helping people trying to learn German.
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Daily Deutsch Doodles are a series of illustrations based on contributions to the #dailydeutsch Twitter hashtag, aimed at helping people trying to learn German.
Interestingly enough, the concept of “die Waldeinsamkeit” is prominent in the English-speaking world, but considered by many Germans not to be a real word, or still in a neologism-like state. I don’t know the exact history of it, although it has been around awhile in poetry; the American transcendentalists loved to use it. However, while Germans understand what it refers to, you will never heard a German use this word or even consider it a word unless you hang out in literary circles. Most dictionaries don’t even have it!