How do I say "flourishing"?
I am starting an expat blog and I want to title to be "Flourishing in Germany." How would this translate into German? I think the verb I want to use is "blühen." One translation I found is "Blühend in Deutschland." Is this correct, or do I need to use a different form?

Vielen Dank!

(sorry my German isn't good enough to ask in German)I have a blog called "How We Flourish," and this expat blog is meant to be an off shoot of that. So I'm looking for something that represents this ongoing flourishing while living in Germany. Possibly I am simply looking for an adjective that means "flourishing," but I think it is more of a verbal usage that I am looking for.

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How do I say "flourishing"?
I am starting an expat blog and I want to title to be "Flourishing in Germany." How would this translate into German? I think the verb I want to use is "blühen." One translation I found is "Blühend in Deutschland." Is this correct, or do I need to use a different form?

Vielen Dank!

(sorry my German isn't good enough to ask in German)I have a blog called "How We Flourish," and this expat blog is meant to be an off shoot of that. So I'm looking for something that represents this ongoing flourishing while living in Germany. Possibly I am simply looking for an adjective that means "flourishing," but I think it is more of a verbal usage that I am looking for.

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Thanks Henry! Yes, it's hard to emulate this construction. Maybe with a "substantiviertes Adjektiv":
-> "Mein Aufblühen in Deutschland"
Aufblühen = to blossom, to flourish with emphasis on the change aspect. It makes one think of when the blossom opens! "in der Schule hatte er immer schlechte Noten, aber im Studium blühte er auf".

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In german there is no real concept of gerund. "flourishing" as a presentparticle corresponds to german Partizip I "bluehend".
However, that "flourishing" you used is gerund, German speaking people would use "(das) Bluehen" in this case, just writing the verb in the capital form chages its part of speech to noun, and this kind of usage emphasizes a dynamic process of the noun, as English. Not being a native speaker, I thought “In Deutschland bluehen ” more resonable. "Bluehen in Deutschland" seems to me weird.

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