Qual è la differenza tra Leed e Smart e Verdriet e Teleurstelling ?Sentiti libero di rispondere con un esempio.

@Elske And why? Are these words outdated or wrong?

@Elske I want to understand which word will more adequately describe the state of grief, depression, complete disappointment and emptiness. Well, plus I want to understand which word is used for this in ordinary conversation, which word is more scientific, and which is more literary or poetic.

@Elske Yes, there is. One is more literary, the other version is colloquial. Безнадёжность (hopelessness literally ver) and безнадёга (hopelessness colloquial ver).

@Elske p.s. I assumed that such a word exists in Dutch, because I know about how the Spaniards besieged Leiden. The situation of people in the city could be called by the Russian word as безнадёжное (hopeless). Then the truth was that people were released, but until that moment the Leiden people were completely desperate and did not count on anything. Then about the miraculous salvation even a saying appeared among the Dutch.

@Elske Leidens ontzet. I also heard there is such a holiday in this city. People on this day eat a lot, drink and have fun in full.

@Elske Yes, this is interesting, thank you, I have already decomposed the word into components in order to better understand the meaning and remember. This word can be translated into Russian almost literally, by the way. We have the words безвыходность/безвыходный and безысходность/безысходный. If you decompose the words, it turns out "without an exit" and "without an outcome". You can even pick up a word with an even more literal translation. Непроглядный/непроглядность, необозримый/необозримость, but these are already literary words (literally "invisible to the eye" and "impossible to see or to observe"). These words can describe that a person does not see the future.

@Elske I will surprise you even more if I say that the word ход [khot] (move or going), which underlies the word exit, is extremely consonant with the Dutch word gaat. I even suggest that it may be that this verb was borrowed in Russian from Dutch.

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