Vokabahn

glücken

C1 Verb frequency rank #12,657

What glücken means

Verb

  1. to succeed, be successful
  2. 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...

Forms

glücken · glückt · glückte · ist geglückt (+ Dativ)

Pronunciation

glücken in a sentence

Es ist mir nicht geglückt, die Unterlagen zu finden.

I’ve not succeeded in finding the documents.

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glücken is C1 German — advanced vocabulary, ranked #12,657 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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