misslingen
See also: Misslingen and mißlingen
German edit
Alternative forms edit
- mißlingen (deprecated)
Etymology edit
Middle High German misselingen, Old High German missilingan
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
misslingen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present misslingt, past tense misslang, past participle misslungen, past subjunctive misslänge, auxiliary sein)
- (intransitive) to fail; to be unsuccessful
- Synonym: missglücken
- Antonym: gelingen
- Das ist dir aber gründlich misslungen! ― That was thoroughly unsuccessful for you!
Usage notes edit
- Before 1996, this word and its various forms were spelled with an ß, i.e. mißlingen, mißlingt, mißlang, mißlungen... Since the German Spelling Reform of 1996, this word and its various forms are spelled with ss instead.
- The verb misslingen is rarely used with a human subject, so it rarely appears in the first-person or second-person forms. To indicate failure related to a person, the dative case is used, as illustrated in the example above.
Conjugation edit
infinitive | misslingen | ||||
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present participle | misslingend | ||||
past participle | misslungen | ||||
auxiliary | sein | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich misslinge | wir misslingen | i | ich misslinge | wir misslingen |
du misslingst | ihr misslingt | du misslingest | ihr misslinget | ||
er misslingt | sie misslingen | er misslinge | sie misslingen | ||
preterite | ich misslang | wir misslangen | ii | ich misslänge1 | wir misslängen1 |
du misslangst | ihr misslangt | du misslängest1 du misslängst1 |
ihr misslänget1 ihr misslängt1 | ||
er misslang | sie misslangen | er misslänge1 | sie misslängen1 | ||
imperative | missling (du) misslinge (du) |
misslingt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “misslingen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “misslingen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “misslingen” in Duden online
- “misslingen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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