gelungen

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German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈlʊŋən/, [ɡəˈlʊŋən], [ɡəˈlʊŋn̩]
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Participle

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gelungen

  1. past participle of gelingen

Adjective

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gelungen (strong nominative masculine singular gelungener, comparative gelungener, superlative am gelungensten)

  1. successful, well done
  2. (informal, perhaps regional) odd, strange in a funny way
    Das ist ja mal ein gelungener Zufall!
    Now that’s a funny coincidence!

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Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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Variant 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

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  • IPA(key): /ɡeˈluŋen/, [ɡəˈluŋən]

Adjective

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gelungen (masculine gelungenen, neuter gelungent, comparative méi gelungen, superlative am gelungensten)

  1. strange, weird, odd
  2. fishy, suspicious

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