serves me/you/him/her/us/them right (indicates that an unpleasant consequence was deserved) · Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bem, feito.
köken: Originally Middle Korean 고ᄉᆞ다〮 (Yale: kwòsò-tá), speakers have later inserted the adjective-deriving suffix -하다 (-hada), first attested in the late Early Modern period. Equivalent to 고소 (goso) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives).
schadenfreude (malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune)
çekim: tamlayan skadeglädjes
köken: Compound of skada (“harm, damage”) + -e- + glädje (“joy, happiness”). Variation of earlier skadefröjd. Compare with German Schadenfreude. First attested in 1804.
Skadeglädje är den enda sanna glädjen
Det finns ett mått av skadeglädje i att sätta skojarna på plats, berättar han.
schadenfreude (malicious enjoyment of another person's suffering)
çekim: tamlayan þórðargleðinnar
köken: From Þórður (“Þórður, an Icelandic male given name”) + gleði (“joy, happiness”), literally “joy of Þórður”. It was coined by reverend Árni Þórarinsson (1860–1948) to describe an event in which Þórður, one of his parishioners, laughed at the poor fortune of the people living in the North of Iceland who had suffered hay rot due to excessive raining that summer. Although the word Þórður is a proper…