misslingen

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  to fail; to be unsuccessful

Usage notes

 * Before 1996, this word and its various forms were spelled with an, i.e. , , , ... Since the German Spelling Reform of 1996, this word and its various forms are spelled with instead.
 * The verb is rarely used with a human subject, so it rarely appears in the first-person or second-person forms. To indicate failure related to a person, the dative case is used, as illustrated in the example above.