gelungen

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

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gelungen

1. past participle of gelingen

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!

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡeˈluŋen/, [ɡəˈluŋən]

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

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