lyckats

Lyckats is the past participle of the Swedish verb lyckas, meaning to succeed or to manage to do something. It is used with auxiliary verbs to form perfect tenses and to describe outcomes that have been achieved. The present tense form is lyckas (to succeed), the simple past is lyckades (succeeded or managed), and the past participle is lyckats, which appears in perfect constructions such as har lyckats or hade lyckats.

In typical usage, lyckats describes successful completion of a task or effort. Examples include: Jag har lyckats med uppgiften (I have succeeded with the task) and Hon lyckades med projektet (She succeeded with the project). In negative form, Det lyckades inte means that something did not succeed. The phrase Det har lyckats kan express that a plan has succeeded up to the present moment.

Lyckats is not commonly used as an ordinary attributive adjective; the corresponding adjectives are lyckad (feminine or common gender) or lyckat (neuter), used to describe a thing as successful in a broader or static sense.

Etymology and relatives: lyckas derives from the older Scandinavian and Germanic roots related to luck and happiness. It is cognate with Danish lykkes and Norwegian lykkes, and is connected to the Swedish noun lycka meaning luck or happiness.