gelangen

See also: gelängen

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡəˈlaŋən]
  • Rhymes: -aŋn̩

Verb

gelangen (weak, third-person singular present gelangt, past tense gelangte, past participle gelangt, auxiliary sein)

  1. (intransitive) to reach, get to, end up in (a place, location)
    Das kurze Video gelangte in falsche Hände.
    The short video ended up in the wrong hands.
  2. (intransitive, with zu) to reach, arrive at (a destination)
    Wir liefen stundenlang, um zur Grenze zu gelangen.
    We walked for hours to reach the border.
Conjugation

Verb

gelangen

  1. first/third-person plural preterite of gelingen

Further reading

  • gelangen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • gelangen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • gelangen” in Duden online
  • gelangen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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