misslingen

See also: mißlingen

German

Alternative forms

• mißlingen (deprecated)

Etymology

miss- +‎ lingen

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋn̩

Verb

1. (intransitive) to fail; to be unsuccessful

   Das ist dir aber gründlich misslungen! — “That was thoroughly unsuccessful for you!”

Usage notes

• 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.

Synonyms

• missglücken

Antonyms

• gelingen

Further reading

• “misslingen” in Duden online