glücken

See also: Glucken

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, with dative) to succeed in (doing something)
    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.”)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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