Thomas

Our word today is

Das Fernweh.

And this one is best explained with the opposite.

Because the German word for home ache is Heimweh.

So homesickness.

Heimweh.

It's that feeling that you desire to be at home.

And well, Fernweh, the away ache, is the exact opposite.

It describes the desire to be away, to go travel, to see the world.

This is often caused when seeing, for example, a picture or hearing stories from other countries or you just had a friend who traveled somewhere and you listen to what he experienced there.

For example, you could say, Wenn ich diese Bilder von Japan sehe, packt mich schon wieder das Fernweh.

So when I see those pictures of Japan, the desire to travel takes hold of me again.

Mich packt das Fernweh.

Okay, I saved the most beautiful word for the end, die Zweisamkeit.

This one needs a little bit of context first.

So the German word for loneliness is einsamkeit, literally one-liness, because ein für one, okay?

So zweisamkeit is the two-liness, or you can say togetherness, and it really works as the opposite.

Instead of being alone, you're having a good time with a person that is very close to you, that is very important to you.

You could say, Ich bin froh, dass wir diesen Moment der Zweisamkeit hatten.

I'm really glad we had this moment of tooliness, of togetherness.