lyckades

Lyckades is the past tense form of the Swedish verb lyckas, meaning to succeed or to manage (to do something). The present tense is lyckas, and the past participle is lyckats. The verb is intransitive and is typically followed by an infinitive or a bare infinitive to specify what was achieved, for example: Jag lyckades få biljetter till konserten. The past tense form is the same for all subjects: jag lyckades, du lyckades, han/hon lyckades, vi lyckades, ni lyckades, de lyckades. The negation is igenom med “inte”: Jag lyckades inte hitta lösningen.

Lyckas is commonly used with med to express succeeding with something, as in lyckas med något, meaning to manage or succeed in doing something, exemplified by Hon lyckades med uppgiften. In everyday speech, lyckas is also used without an explicit object when the context is clear, as in Jag lyckades få hjälp.

Etymology: lyckas is related to the noun lycka, meaning luck or happiness, and shares a Germanic root with English luck. The meaning has evolved from a sense of being fortunate to the more concrete idea of able to accomplish or achieve something.

See also: misslyckas (to fail), framgång (success).