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arbejdsglæde

AH-bites-GLEH-thuh[ˈɑːpɑjtsˌklɛːðə]

joy that comes from the work itself — job satisfaction

Closest in English: fulfilment, fulfillment, job-satisfaction. None of them covers it.

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The story

Arbejde is work, glæde is joy, and Danes treat the compound as a hiring requirement: it appears in ordinary job ads and gets measured in annual surveys. The rest of Scandinavia has the word too. English offers job satisfaction, which sounds like a form to fill in.

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  1. Which language is it from?Danish
  2. What is its opposite?The Sunday-evening dread
  3. How does it sound to Danes?An everyday word, heard in job ads
  4. What does it mean?Real happiness found in the work itself

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