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ich entging

escaped someone's notice, went unnoticed, escaped, avoided

→ entgehen
ent remove or separate from + ging to leave; to go
verb · 1st-person singular / 3rd-person singular, past tense Rare #33,450
escaped someone's notice, went unnoticed Used with the person who failed to notice something in the dative case.
GE: Der Fehler entging mir.
EN: I didn't notice the mistake.
escaped, avoided Often used with a narrow escape, as in “entging knapp”.
GE: Sie entging nur knapp dem Unfall.
EN: She narrowly escaped the accident.
Conjugation of entgehen
Indicative past
SingularPlural
First entging —
Third entging —

Seinem scharfen Blick entging kein einziger Fehler.

Not a single mistake escaped his sharp eye.

Tom entging nur knapp dem Tode.

Tom narrowly escaped death.

Die Anspielung entging mir nicht.

The allusion did not escape me.

Kaum etwas in Avonlea entging Mrs. Lynde.

Hardly anything in Avonlea escaped Mrs. Lynde’s notice.

Er entging knapp dem Tode.

He narrowly escaped death.

Das entging mir.

I missed that.

— Lagaan - Es war einmal in Indien (2001)

Grace entging nichts.

Nothing escaped Grace.

— Avatar - Aufbruch nach Pandora (2009)