glücken

Meaning

  1. (weak) to succeed, be successful
  2. (impersonal, weak) 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 the subject)

Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German gelücken, derived from gelücke (“luck, success”), whence modern Glück.

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