No. 801 in Lithuanian

sėkmės

"Good luck."

In a sentence

Linkiu tau sėkmės darbe.
I wish you success at work.
Here, 'sėkmės' means 'success' in the sense of achieving good results, used as an object of the verb 'linkiu' (I wish).
Įdėjus daug pastangų, jam pavyko pasiekti didelės sėkmės.
After a lot of effort, he managed to achieve great success.
Here, 'sėkmės' is in the genitive case, meaning 'of success', specifying the quality of the achievement.
Sėkmės su savo nauju projektu!
Good luck with your new project!
Here, 'sėkmės' is used as an exclamation or well-wishing phrase, equivalent to 'Good luck!'

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