suceder
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Hyphenation: su‧ce‧der
Verb
[edit]suceder (first-person singular present sucedo, first-person singular preterite sucedín, past participle sucedido)
suceder (first-person singular present sucedo, first-person singular preterite sucedim or sucedi, past participle sucedido, reintegrationist norm)
Conjugation
[edit]1Less recommended.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “suceder”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
- “suceder”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin succēdere.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: su‧ce‧der
Verb
[edit]suceder (first-person singular present sucedo, first-person singular preterite sucedi, past participle sucedido)
- to happen
- 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O Romance de Adelina [Adelina’s romance]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies][1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 134:
- Mas como foi que tudo isto succedeu? perguntas tu cheia de pasmo.
- But how was it that all of this happened? you ask agasp.
- to succeed to, to follow
Conjugation
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “suceder”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “suceder” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “suceder”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin succēdere. The meaning of "to be successful" was lost from this verb and given to the verb conseguir and the verb phrase "tener éxito".
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /suθeˈdeɾ/ [su.θeˈð̞eɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /suseˈdeɾ/ [su.seˈð̞eɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: su‧ce‧der
Verb
[edit]suceder (first-person singular present sucedo, first-person singular preterite sucedí, past participle sucedido)
- (impersonal) to happen, to befall, to occur
- Synonyms: ocurrir, pasar
- ¿Qué sucede? ― What’s the matter?
- Suceda lo que suceda ― Come what may.
- en caso de suceder ― if it should happen
- c. 1935, Pablo Neruda, Walking Around:
- Sucede que me canso de mis pies y mis uñas / y mi pelo y mi sombra. / Sucede que me canso de ser hombre.
- It happens that I'm tired of my feet and nails / and my hair and my shadow. / It happens that I'm tired of being a man.
- 2004, Laura Pausini, “Escucha Atento”, in Escucha[2], performed by Laura Pausini:
- Hoy volví a pensar en ti
Hace siglos que
no te llamo ni tú a mí …
Suele suceder
[…]
Escucha atento: no vas a tener
alternativa a mí
lo sé; lo sé
alternativa a mí
lo sé
Hoy volví a pensar en ti
Suele suceder- Today I found myself thinking of you again
It’s been ages since
I called you, or you called me
It usually happens
[…]
Listen closely—you won't have
An alternative to me—I know it … I know it
An alternative to me—I know it
Today I found myself thinking of you again
It usually happens
- Today I found myself thinking of you again
- to succeed to, to follow
- (US) to succeed, to triumph
Conjugation
[edit]These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “suceder”, 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
- Moreno Fernández, Francisco (2018), “suceder”, in Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense[3] (overall work in Spanish), New York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, , →ISBN[4]
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