ocurrir
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin occurrere (“appear, occur”), from ob + currō (“run”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ocurrir (third-person only, third-person singular present ocurre, third-person singular preterite ocurrió, past participle ocurrido)
- (impersonal) to happen, to occur
- 2020 December 12, Papel Literario, “Juan Nuño y la realidad delusoria”, in El Nacional[1], archived from the original on 22 January 2021:
- Su desdoblamiento ocurría en su sueño, por eso no era delusoriamente conceptual (creo que por ahí va Nuño).
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (idiomatic, impersonal, reflexive) to come up with
- Se me ocurrió una idea.
- I came up with an idea.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of ocurrir (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of ocurrir
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Conjugation of ocurrirse (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ocurrir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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