gelungen
gelungen (strong nominative masculine singular gelungener, comparative gelungener, superlative am gelungensten)
Variant of gelongen (“well done, felicitous”), participle of geléngen; influenced phonetically by German gelungen, which also has a regional or informal sense “odd in a funny way”. At first said of funny coincidences, events, stories, ideas; then generalised. In Luxembourgish perhaps also associated with gelunn (regionally also gelugen), past participle of léien (“to tell lies”), and hence the more negative sense.
gelungen (masculine gelungenen, neuter gelungent, comparative méi gelungen, superlative am gelungensten)
number and gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | hien ass gelungen | si ass gelungen | et ass gelungen | si si(nn) gelungen | |
nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | gelungenen | gelungen | gelungent | gelungen |
independent without determiner | gelungenes | gelungener | |||
dative | after any declined word | gelungenen | gelungener | gelungenen | gelungenen |
as first declined word | gelungenem | gelungenem |