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mitfühlen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • empathize verb To understand and share the feelings of another person.
  • sympathize verb To feel or express understanding and care for someone else's suffering or situation.

Senses

mitfühlen is used for these senses in English:

  • empathize (intransitive) to feel empathy for another person
  • feel for (idiomatic) To experience sympathy for, to sympathise with.
  • sympathize (intransitive) To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected

sympathize — full definition

  1. verb To feel or express understanding and care for someone else's suffering or situation.
  2. verb To support or agree with a cause, side, or opinion.

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