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vonstattengehen (v.i., sep.)
   to proceed, go ahead; take place
Principal Parts: es geht vonstatten, ging vonstatten, ist vonstattengegangen

Schröder wollte wissen, wie das ganze Prozedere vonstatten geht*, wie viel er pro Buch erhalte und wie…
Schroeder wanted to know how the whole procedure works, how much he would get per book and how...
Wie geht so was vonstatten?
What is the procedure for that?
Sie kritisierten, wie das Projekt vonstattengegangen war.
They were critical of how the project had proceeded.

*The new German spelling rules make vonstattengehen a separable-prefix verb, rather than an adverb (vonstatten) + verb (gehen), but Der Spiegel (from which this quote comes) and some other periodicals still use the old spelling.

Related:
Es ging alles gut vonstatten. Everything went well.
langsamer vonstattengehen to proceed/take place more slowly

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