glücken

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German gelücken, derived from gelücke (luck, success), whence modern Glück.

Pronunciation

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Verb

glücken (weak, third-person singular present glückt, past tense glückte, past participle geglückt, auxiliary sein)

  1. to succeed, be successful
    Synonyms: erfolgreich sein, gelingen
    Die Operation ist geglückt.
    The operation was successful.
  2. (impersonal) for there to be success (idiomatically translated by English succeed with the dative object as the subject)
    Synonym: gelingen (commoner)
    Es ist mir nicht geglückt, die Unterlagen zu finden.
    I’ve not succeeded in finding the documents.
    (literally, “It has not succeeded to me to find the documents.”)

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Further reading

  • glücken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • glücken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • glücken” in Duden online
  • glücken” in OpenThesaurus.de