Das traurige Gefühl, allein zu sein.
The sad feeling of being alone.
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See how the word “Einsamkeit” is used in sentences
Nach dem Umzug kämpfte er mit der Einsamkeit. — He struggled with loneliness after the move.
Wird die Einsamkeit mit der Zeit leichter? — Does loneliness get easier with time?
Ein kurzer Anruf kann die Einsamkeit langer Schichten lindern. — A short call can ease the loneliness of long shifts.
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testGerman has one word where English splits into two. Einsamkeit covers both loneliness, the suffering, and solitude, the chosen kind — and only the sentence around it says which is meant. Die Einsamkeit der Berge is not a complaint.
When the positive sense has to be unmistakable, German reaches for Alleinsein or the more literary Zurückgezogenheit. But neither carries the warmth that English solitude has, and that gap is real: German simply has no single word for wanting to be alone and enjoying it.
einsam lonely, solitary
Of a person it means lonely, of a place remote — the same double duty as English lonely.
Alleinsein being alone
Neutral and factual, without the sorrow. The nearest German gets to solitude.
Isolation isolation
Imposed from outside, and borrowed. Einsamkeit is felt from inside.
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