fremdschämen

B1 Verb frequency rank #11,294

What fremdschämen means

Verb

to feel secondhand embarrassment; to be embarrassed by something someone else is doing

Forms

fremdschämen · schämt sich fremd · schämte sich fremd · hat fremdgeschämt

Pronunciation

fremdschämen in a sentence

Ich schäme mich fremd, wenn ich so etwas sehe.

I cringe when I see something like that.

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fremdschämen is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #11,294 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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