Verb
glücken
to succeed, be successful
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Meanings
Verb
- to succeed, be successful
- for there to be success [with dative ‘to someone’ and zu (+ infinitive) ‘in doing something’] (idiomatically translated by English succeed with the dative object as...
In a sentence
Es ist mir nicht geglückt, die Unterlagen zu finden.
I’ve not succeeded in finding the documents.
Forms
infinitive
glücken
he/she/it
glückt
simple past
glückte
perfect
ist geglückt
takes + Dativ