lykkes

== Danish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /løkəs/, [ˈløɡ̊əs] === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Middle Low German lucken (“to succeed”), a cognate of German glücken (“to succeed”). Norwegian Bokmål lykkes and Swedish lyckas are also borrowed from Low German. The verb is derived from the noun Middle Low German (ge)lucke (“happiness, good luck”) (Danish lykke, German Glück). ==== Verb ==== lykkes (past lykkedes, past participle lykkedes) (deponent, intransitive) to be a success, be successful, succeed in (with a noun phrase or a noun clause as its subject and the person succeeding as an indirect object) (deponent, proscribed, with the preposition med) to succeed in (governing a noun phrase or a noun clause, with the person succeeding as the subject) ===== Usage notes ===== Some prescribe that the subject of lykkes should be the activity and not the agent, such that constructions like vi lykkedes med at... should be rephrased as e.g. det lykkedes os at... ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== mislykkes (“to fail”) === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Noun ==== lykkes c indefinite genitive singular of lykke == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === From Middle Low German lucken. === Pronunciation === === Verb === lykkes (imperative and present tense lykkes, simple past lyktes, past participle lykkes or lyktes) to prove a success, succeed === References === “lykkes” in The Bokmål Dictionary. “lykkes” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).