gelingen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German gelingen, from Old High German gilingan, a prefixed form of lingan, from Proto-West Germanic *lingwan. Compare Yiddish געלינגען (gelingen). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡəˈlɪŋən/, [ɡəˈlɪŋŋ̩] 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) (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: 2011, Heiko Alexander, Erfolg beginnt im Kopf: Die Geheimnisse des NLP, C. H. Beck (e-book version without page numbers): ==== Usage notes ==== Chiefly used impersonally (i.e. in the third person). The other forms (first and second person) are uncommon and poetic. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== Gelingen gelingend, gelungen misslingen === 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 to succeed to happen to befall to be pleasing, to be satisfying ==== Inflection ==== This verb needs an inflection-table template. === Further reading === Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “gelingen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN