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happen English

Meaning happen meaning

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Definitions in simple English

happen Verb

— if something happens, it starts or changes without a plan. Did anything happen at school today? It may happen to rain today.

happen

— verb (= occur, pass, take place) come to pass What is happening? The meeting took place off without an incidence Nothing occurred that seemed important — verb (= befall) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; ; (Santayana) It happens that today is my birthday These things befell — verb chance to be or do something, without intention or causation I happen to have just what you need! — verb (= materialize, materialise) come into being; become reality Her dream really materialized — verb (= find, chance) come upon, as if by accident; meet with We find this idea in Plato I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day

Synonyms happen synonyms

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happen English » English

occur take place come about become befall arise be come to pass appear go on come transpire pass fall out chance hap turn up grow do go fortune betide bechance pass off come up come across arrive turn out rise produce materialize materialise get fall come into being caused take succeed result proceed overtake move make intervene have get done fare emerge come true come out

Topics happen topics

What do people use happen to talk about?
Grammar General words Do

Happen
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Encounter
States Time Relative time Right time

On time
States Time Aspectual time Future

Soon
States Time Speed

Quick

Conjugation happen conjugation

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happen · verb

Examples happen examples

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Simple sentences

Wealth comes to those who make things happen, not to those who let things happen.
What will happen to her?
Who knows what will happen tomorrow?
It can happen to anybody.
You're in a good mood today. Did something nice happen?
Did it actually happen?
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
So, did anything happen?
This is what must happen.
You shouldn't have let this happen.
Tom has no idea what's going to happen.
I was the one who had to make it happen.
What will happen to him?
That won't happen.
Let's consider the worst that could happen.
Let's think about the worst that could happen.
Let us think about the worst that could happen.
I didn't want this to happen.
I didn't want that to happen.
I didn't mean for this to happen.
I didn't mean that to happen.
I did want that to happen.
If you know that something unpleasant will happen, that you will go to the dentist for example, or to France, then that is not good.
That's not going to happen.
It's not going to happen.
It isn't going to happen.
I didn't want it to happen.

Movie subtitles

Things can happen, right?
What do you think will happen then? I imagine.
Question - could something similar happen to Western civilization 2.0 - the version that, after a millennium of stagnation, rose to dominate the world?
Heavenly Father, why do you let bad things happen?
I can't believe all the terrible things you let happen!
When it expands, the projectile continues on down into the impact chamber and that's when things happen.
I may not know your situation, how can this happen to a young Lady like you?
How could this happen, Jade Emperor, old man?
There is no way that would happen.
Then.. then what will happen to me?
What will happen to you?
How could such a thing happen?
How can this happen.
Would you happen to be Miyamoto-dono?
What do you think will happen then?
It was expected that he would get a big telescope, but for unknown reasons this did not happen.
The change of vision that happened in the past one hundred years, take my word for it, will happen again in the coming one hundred years.
What will happen to Algeria? - A republic means liberty, equality and fraternity for every man.
It'll happen, you'll see.
When did that happen?
I came to determine your intent, what you have planned, and now that I know, I will not let it happen.
I was also planning to ask you for your help in decoding this, but I suppose that won't happen now.
Did something happen?
Did it just happen? -The killer must still be here!
Wait. Something might happen.
Where do you happen to be headed for?
Because this is dangerous country and anything might happen.
By the way, you happen to remember what the penalty is for desertion?
And all that's going to happen to Johnny is he's going to miss a math quiz. How's that going to make him a better kid?
So, if something were to happen to them now, it couldn't have anything to do with me.
I think Lydia knows Stiles likes her, but it's not going to happen right now.
Peter is his way into, maybe, just one slight advantage of making that happen and being able to get rid of it.
Something big will happen if he does.
WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN?
I DIDN'T MEAN FOR ANY OF THIS TO HAPPEN.
If I may ask you an abrupt question would you happen to know of a man called Miyamoto Musashi?
Anything, uh, interesting happen while I was away?

News and current affairs

So it can happen anywhere.
This did not happen, because neither the Western Allies nor the Soviet Union supported it.
This idea has great appeal to people in the region, but only the EU can make it happen.
These rules must eventually be restored intact if Europe is to return to the path of sustainable growth, and a consensus will need to be forged now to make that happen.
But, because this cannot happen for all major economies simultaneously - one country's (or group of countries') austerity implies less demand for other countries' products - such policies eventually lead to beggar-thy-neighbor situations.
Recent history has given us graphic evidence of what would happen if we do.
But time is short, and few of new DPJ lawmakers possess the legislative experience and budgetary expertise to make that happen.
But it would take a medium-sized political miracle for these hopes not to be disappointed, and such a miracle will not happen - whoever is elected.
Did he not think about what would happen to poor Americans with variable-rate mortgages if interest rates rose, as they almost surely would?
This is what appeared to happen in the last Indian election, and the election in the United States of President Barack Obama was also plainly a supremely rational moment.
Nobody knows whether the debt-ceiling tripwire will be evaded; if so, how; or what will happen if it is not.
For now, what will happen depends on Mousavi's perseverance.
One thing that will happen at Nice will be the formal adoption of a Charter of Fundamental Rights.
NEW DELHI - Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere.
Even the United States abrogated indexation clauses in bond contracts during the Great Depression of the 1930's. So it can happen anywhere.
What, for example, will happen to a country as central and vulnerable as Egypt when hundred of thousands of Egyptians working in the Gulf are forced to return to their homeland as a result of the crisis in the oil-producing countries?
First of all, as a kid, I just assumed that I would go to the moon, without having to do much in particular to make it happen.
Here, more needs to be done, above and beyond the adaptation that will happen naturally.
TOKYO - Historic transformations often happen when least expected.
I am not predicting that this will happen.
For that to happen, Mogherini must assert herself as a leader, backed by Juncker and the new European Council president, Donald Tusk.
But his latest victory does not answer the question of what will happen when he finally does leave the political scene.
So what will happen when a transition is forced on the Palestinian movement by his demise?
That happened in the aftermath of the Hanshin (Kobe) earthquake in 1995, and it will happen this time as well.
But mass atrocity crimes did happen in Sri Lanka, there was moral default all around, and if we do not learn from this past, we will indeed be condemned to repeat it.
We know this because we have seen it happen repeatedly: a poor, agrarian economy transforms itself into a middle- or even high-income urban economy in one or two generations.
If this does not happen within the coming weeks and months, then Turkey will have demonstrated that all this was just a show.

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