zugrunde gehen

== German == === Alternative forms === zu Grunde gehen zugrundegehen (obsolete) === Etymology === Literally, “to go to ground” === Verb === zugrunde gehen (class 7 strong, third-person singular present geht zugrunde, past tense ging zugrunde, past participle zugrunde gegangen, auxiliary sein) (figurative, euphemistic) to perish, to die (figurative) to collapse, to decay, to go under ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Zugrundegehen Zugrundegang === Further reading === “zugrunde gehen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “zugrunde gehen” in Duden online "zugrunde gehen" in Redensarten-Index