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What is the difference between erfolgreich and gelungen ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between erfolgreich and gelungen ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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They can be similar when you want to say "something turned out well". Other than that, you have to mind that "gelungen" is a participle while "erfolgreich" is an adjective, and they usually refer to different ideas:
erfolgreich: successful
gelingen: to turn out well (project, cooking, task, .....)
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Thanks! So I guess if I want to describe a person like “the man is successful”, it’d be “der Mann ist erfolgreich” and if it’s “the man’s work turns out successful”, it’d be “Die Arbeit des Mannes ist gelungen”?
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Yeah, exactly. For the same reason, you could not say
"Der Mann ist gelungen", but "Die Arbeit des Mannes war erfolgreich/ein Erfolg" works (at least kind of, I'd still not say that honestly, but it somewhat makes sense.)
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