"get further" in German to get further weiterkommen Detailed translations for "get further" to get further to get further(also: to make progress, to make headway, to get on, to get ahead) weiterkommen{intransitive verb} - John, to get further along sometimes you have to go down that road not taken. Source: opensubtitles.org Corpus by OPUS Request review - Wenn man weiterkommen will... muss man den Weg nehmen, den man noch nicht gegangen ist.