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vorankommen

to make progress, to move forward

verb for-AN-ko-men Rare
Travel & Places Movement

Also means

to get ahead (in a queue or traffic)

Usage Note

Vorankommen means to advance or make headway, both literally in traffic (Im Stau kommen wir kaum voran) and figuratively. Separable: kommt … voran. The focus is on steady progress along a route or in a task.

Examples

"Im dichten Stadtverkehr kamen wir nur langsam voran."

Natural Translation

In the heavy city traffic we could only move forward slowly.

Literal Translation

In the dense city traffic we came forward only slowly.

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