Polyglot Dictionary

anlangen

/ˈanˌlaŋən/

verb C1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

V Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

present
langt an
past
langte an
perfect
ist angelangt

Meaning

  1. to arrive

V Category Action Concreteness Concrete Agency Voluntary Duration Punctual Transitivity Intransitive

Similar words

ankommen

Ankommen is the everyday, universal word for arriving; anlangen is an older, more literary or regional synonym, rarely used in modern speech.

Similar in other languages

French

arriver

arriver is the French word for the same thing — both mean "to arrive."

Portuguese

chegar

chegar is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "to arrive."

Practice

1 What does anlangen mean?

2 Fill the gap: Wir sind endlich am Ziel ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches anlangen?

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