gelungen
German
editPronunciation
editParticiple
editgelungen
Adjective
editgelungen (strong nominative masculine singular gelungener, comparative gelungener, superlative am gelungensten)
- successful, well done
- (informal, perhaps regional) odd, strange in a funny way
- Das ist ja mal ein gelungener Zufall!
- Now that’s a funny coincidence!
Declension
editPositive forms of gelungen
Comparative forms of gelungen
Superlative forms of gelungen
Luxembourgish
editEtymology
editVariant 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
editAdjective
editgelungen (masculine gelungenen, neuter gelungent, comparative méi gelungen, superlative am gelungensten)
Declension
editdeclension of gelungen
number and gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | hien ass gelungen | si ass gelungen | et ass gelungen | si si(nn) gelungen | |
nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | gelungenen | gelungen | gelungent | gelungen |
independent without determiner | gelungenes | gelungener | |||
dative | after any declined word | gelungenen | gelungener | gelungenen | gelungenen |
as first declined word | gelungenem | gelungenem |
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