gelingen

See also: Gelingen

German

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old High German gilingan, a prefixed form of lingan, from Proto-West Germanic *lingwan. Compare Yiddish געלינגען‎ (gelingen).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈlɪŋən/, [ɡəˈʃlɪŋŋ̩]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ge‧lin‧gen
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋn̩

Verb

gelingen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present gelingt, past tense gelang, past participle gelungen, past subjunctive gelänge, auxiliary sein)

  1. (intransitive) to turn out well, to work out, to go smoothly, to succeed, to come off
    Synonym: glücken
    Antonym: misslingen
    • 2011, Lorett Sachs, Glück (k)ein Geheimnis: Lyrik für viele Stimmungen, BoD – Books on Demand →ISBN, page 7, poem Guten Morgen - neuer Tag:
      Deine Stunden, Augenblicke
      mal sehen, ob du gelingst.
      Your hours, moments
      let's see if you turn out well.
    • 2011, Heiko Alexander, Erfolg beginnt im Kopf: Die Geheimnisse des NLP, C. H. Beck (e-book version without page numbers):
      […] Sie [können] zu einer Sache auch sagen: Du bist eine Kleinigkeit und als solche nehme ich dich wahr. Selbst wenn du mir jetzt nicht gelingst, wird mich das nicht aufhalten!
      […] you [can] also say to an affair: You are child's play and thus I perceive you. Even if you don't work out by now, this can not stop me!
    • 2015, Tim Krohn, Nachts in Vals:
      Während sie über die Brücke ging, glitt sie aus, doch es gelang ihr, sich aufzufangen.
      As she crossed the bridge she slipped over, but she managed to catch herself.

Usage notes
  • Chiefly used impersonally (i.e. in the third person). The other forms (first and second person) are uncommon and poetic.

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading
  • “gelingen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “gelingen” in Duden online
  • “gelingen” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • “gelingen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *gilingan, from Proto-West Germanic *lingwan.

Verb

gelingen

  1. to succeed
  2. to happen to befall
  3. to be pleasing, to be satisfying

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading
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