gelingen
Meaning in English: succeed, turn out well
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Mit etwas Übung wird dir das bestimmt gelingen.
With a bit of practice you'll surely manage it.
Forms of gelingen in the top 5,000
German verbs change their ending with the person and tense, and each form is counted on its own. These forms of gelingen are also in the top 5,000:
Dieser Kuchen gelingt mir immer.
This cake always turns out well for me.
Endlich gelang es ihm, den Fehler zu finden.
He finally managed to find the mistake.
Der Kuchen ist dir wirklich gut gelungen!
Your cake turned out really well!
How common is gelingen?
gelingen is number 2,614 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 34 times per million words — about once every 29,000 words. Its most frequent form is gelingt (#1,753).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,610Beschwerdencomplaints; aches, symptoms
- 2,611brauche(I) need
- 2,612gebotenoffered
- 2,613allgemeingeneral, generally
- 2,614gelingensucceed, turn out well
- 2,615kommendecoming, next
- 2,616einerseitson the one hand
- 2,617herrschtprevails, there is; rules
- 2,618Konsequenzenconsequences
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