happen

Etymology
From, , augmented from , perhaps from and/or from , , from. Equivalent to.

Verb

 * 1)  To occur or take place.
 * 2)  To happen to; to befall.
 * 3)  To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
 * 4)  To encounter by chance.
 * 5)  To become popular or trendy.
 * 1)  To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
 * 2)  To encounter by chance.
 * 3)  To become popular or trendy.
 * 1)  To encounter by chance.
 * 2)  To become popular or trendy.
 * 1)  To encounter by chance.
 * 2)  To become popular or trendy.
 * 1)  To become popular or trendy.

Usage notes

 * In the sense which indicates a chance occurrence, happen is a catenative verb that takes the to-infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Translations

 * Afrikaans: aangaan
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, , حَصَلَ, وَقَعَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: حصل
 * Hijazi Arabic: صار, حصل
 * Moroccan Arabic: وقع
 * Aramaic: הוי
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: ঘটা
 * Azerbaijani: vaqe olmaq,
 * Bashkir: булыу
 * Basque: gertatu, bururatu
 * Belarusian: здара́цца, зда́рыцца, адбыва́цца, адбы́цца, трапля́цца, тра́піцца
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Cherokee: ᏂᎦᎵᏍᏗᎭ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 發生
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, , dějít se
 * Danish:, , indtræffe, forefalde
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: juhtuma,
 * Faroese:, gerast
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , ,
 * Galician:, , , , , adergar, , acaescer
 * Gallurese: avviné
 * Georgian: მოხდომა
 * German:, , ,
 * Alemannic German: passiere
 * Greek:, , , , , ,
 * Ancient: τυγχάνω, συμφέρω
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: bera við,, , vilja til,
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: tapahtua
 * Irish: tarlaigh
 * Old Irish: ad·cumaing, do·ecmaing, for·cumaing
 * Isan:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino:
 * Roman: afitar
 * Lao: ບັງເກີດ,, ເປັນ
 * Latin:, , , , , intercido,
 * Latvian: notik
 * Lithuanian: atsitikti,, įvykti
 * Lü:
 * Luhya: esihole
 * Macedonian: се случува, се случи
 * Maore Comorian: hidjiri
 * Mbyá Guaraní: iko
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Ngazidja Comorian: hundra
 * Nigerian Pidgin: happun
 * Norwegian: foregå, inntreffe,
 * Old English: ġelimpan, weorþan, ġebyrian
 * Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰆𐰞
 * Persian:, , واقع شدن, پیشامد کردن
 * Polish:, , wydarzać, , , , ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Quechua:
 * Romagnol: cadér
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ; , ,
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: accadésseri, sutzediri
 * Logudorese: sutzèdere
 * Sassarese: accadí
 * Scottish Gaelic: tachair, turchair, tàrlaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: догодити, десити
 * Roman: ,
 * Seri: aaha
 * Shan:
 * Slovak: stať, udiať
 * Slovene: zgodíti se
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: tukia, tokea
 * Swedish:, , , ,
 * Tagalog: mangyari
 * Tajik: рӯй додан, воқеъ шудан, иттифоқ афтодан
 * Tamil: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: བྱུང
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: става́тися, ста́тися, трапля́тися, тра́питися, відбува́тися, відбу́тися, чини́тися, учини́тися, зчини́тися, роби́тися, зроби́тися
 * Urdu: بیتنا, ہونا
 * Uyghur: يۈز بەرمەك
 * Uzbek:, voqe boʻlmoq, yuz bermoq
 * Vietnamese:, xảy đến
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Yiddish: געשען
 * Zhuang:


 * Finnish:
 * Polish:

Adverb

 * 1)  maybe, perhaps.

Verb

 * 1) to take a bite