German has a bevy of words to describe emotions in more descriptive ways than English allows. Some of these feelings are so universal that instead of attempting to cobble together a description in English, we’ve adopted the German words. For example, the German loanword “schadenfreude” is a direct combination of the German words for “harm or misfortune” and “joy.” It describes the happiness one feels at the misfortune of others. Perhaps it’s not always appropriate to feel a spark of glee when someone gets what’s coming to them, but that’s “schadenfreude.”