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nachfolgen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • agree verb To share the same opinion as someone else.
  • succeed verb To achieve a desired goal or outcome.

Senses

nachfolgen is used for these senses in English:

  • agree (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
  • come after To follow or succeed; to be the successor of.
  • succeed (intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).
  • succeed (transitive, obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.

agree — full definition

  1. verb To share the same opinion as someone else.
  2. verb To say yes to a plan, request, or arrangement.
  3. verb In grammar, to match another word in form, such as a verb matching its subject in number.

succeed — full definition

  1. verb To achieve a desired goal or outcome.
  2. verb To take over a position, office, or title after someone else.

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