gelungen

== German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡəˈlʊŋən/, [ɡəˈlʊŋən], [ɡəˈlʊŋn̩] === Participle === gelungen past participle of gelingen === Adjective === gelungen (strong nominative masculine singular gelungener, comparative gelungener, superlative am gelungensten) successful, well done (informal, perhaps regional) odd, strange in a funny way ==== Declension ==== == Luxembourgish == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡeˈluŋen/, [ɡəˈluŋən] === Adjective === gelungen (masculine gelungenen, neuter gelungent, comparative méi gelungen, superlative am gelungensten) strange, weird, odd fishy, suspicious ==== Declension ====