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ich gelang

succeeded, worked out

→ gelingen
verb · 1st-person singular / 3rd-person singular, past tense Rare #38,500
succeeded, worked out The thing that succeeded is the subject; the person it succeeded for is in the dative.
GE: Der Versuch gelang ihm.
EN: The attempt succeeded.
Conjugation of gelingen
Indicative past
SingularPlural
First gelang —
Third gelang —

Tom gelang die Flucht.

Tom managed to escape.

Ihm gelang die Flucht.

He managed to escape.

Jahren nicht gelang!

We haven't succeeded in years!

— American Gangster (2007)

Eben hörte ich, dass es meinen Freunden gelang,..

I just heard that my friends managed to...

— Der Postmann (1994)

Tom gelang die Flucht durch ein Fenster.

Tom managed to escape through a window.

Das gelang dir auch perfekt.

You did that perfectly.

— The Garden of Sinners: Paradoxe Helix (2008)