die Scham

C1 Noun frequency rank #6,166

What Scham means

Noun

shame (uncomfortable feeling at one's own impropriety or at the exposure of something private; but not in the sense of disgrace or being dishonored, for which Schande)
bashfulness, prudishness, shamefacedness

Forms

die Scham · no common plural

Pronunciation

Scham in a sentence

Ich log aus Scham.

I lied out of shame.

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Scham is C1 German — advanced vocabulary, ranked #6,166 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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