English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English happenen
Pronunciation [edit]
happen (third-person singular simple present happens, present participle happening, simple past and past participle happened)
- To occur or take place.
- Let me tell you how it happened.
- To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
- Take an umbrella in case it happens to rain.
- (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
- 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, ch. 30:
- Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.
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Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from happen
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Translations [edit]
to occur
- Albanian: ndodhë (sq)
- Arabic: حدث (ar) (Hádatha)
- Armenian: պատահել (hy) (patahel)
- Belarusian: здарыцца (be) (zdárycca)
- Bulgarian: се случи (bg) (se sluči)
- Catalan: passar, ocórrer, succeir
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發生 (cmn), 发生 (cmn) (fāshēng)
- Czech: stát se
- Danish: ske (da), hænde (da), indtræffe (da)
- Dutch: gebeuren (nl)
- Esperanto: okazi (eo)
- Estonian: juhtuma (et), toimuma (et)
- Finnish: tapahtua (fi), sattua (fi), käydä (fi)
- French: advenir (fr), arriver (fr), se produire (fr), se passer (fr)
- Georgian: მოხდომა (ka) (moxdoma)
- German: geschehen (de), passieren (de), stattfinden (de)
- Greek: συμβαίνω (el) (simvéno), τυχαίνω (el) (tiçéno), λαχαίνω (el) (laçéno), τυγχάνω (el) (tiŋxáno), διαδραματίζομαι (el) (ðiaðramatízome), σημειώνομαι (el) (simiónome)
- Hebrew: קָרָה (he) (kará), הָלַךְ (he) (halákh)
- Hindi: बीतना (hi) (bītnā)
- Hungarian: történik (hu)
- Icelandic: bera við (is), henda (is), verða (is), vilja til (is)
- Ido: eventar (io)
- Irish: tarlaigh (ga)
- Italian: accadere (it), succedere (it)
- Japanese: 起こる (ja) (おこる, okoru), 起る (ja) (おこる, okoru)
- Korean: 일어낟 (ko) (ireonada)
- Ladino:
- Roman: afitar, eo (la)
- Latin: fieri (la), fio (la), accido (la), contingo (la), evenio (la), cado (la), intercido (la)
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- Latvian: notik (lv)
- Lithuanian: atsitikti (lt), vykti (lt), įvykti (lt)
- Luhya: esihole
- Norwegian: foregå (no), inntreffe (no), skje (no)
- Old English: weorþan (ang), ġeweorþan (ang)
- Persian: پیشامد کردن (fa)
- Polish: zdarzyć się (pl), wydarzyć się (pl), dziać się (pl), zaistnieć (pl), stać się (pl)
- Portuguese: acontecer (pt), suceder (pt)
- Romanian: întâmpla (ro), petrece (ro)
- Russian: происходить (ru) (proisxodít’) impf., произойти (ru) (proizojtí) pf.; случаться (ru) (slučát’sja) impf., случиться (ru) (slučít’sja) pf., состояться (ru) (sostoját’sja) pf.
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese Sardinian: accadésseri, sutzediri
- Gallurese Sardinian: avviné
- Logudorese Sardinian: sutzèdere
- Sassarese Sardinian: accadí
- Scottish Gaelic: tachair (gd), turchair (gd), tàrlaidh (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian: (reflexive) dogoditi (sh)
- Seri: aaha
- Slovak: stať sa (sk)
- Slovene: zgodíti se (sl)
- Spanish: suceder (es), ocurrir (es), pasar (es)
- Swahili: tukiyo (sw)
- Swedish: hända (sv), ske (sv), inträffa (sv), äga rum (sv)
- Thai: เกิด (th) (gèrt)
- Turkish: olmak (tr), yer bulmak (tr), meydana gelmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: статися (uk) (státysja)
- Urdu: بیتنا (ur) (bītnā)
- Vietnamese: xảy ra (vi), xảy đến (vi)
- Volapük: jenön (vo)
- Yiddish: געשען (yi) (geshen)
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Adverb [edit]
happen (not comparable)
- (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
Pronunciation [edit]
happen
- to take a bite
Conjugation [edit]
Conjugation of happen (weak)
happen
- plural form of hap
