That won't happen.
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Happen
//ˈhæpən//
Synonyms for "happen" (90 found)
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16 entriesMore specific
3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
32 entriesShowing 16 of 32 words.
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2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
similar
2 entriesTranslations
257 translations across 101 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- aangaan verb (to occur)
Albanian
1 entries- ndodh verb (to occur)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- συμφέρω verb (to occur)
- τυγχάνω verb (to occur)
Arabic
4 entries- جَرَى verb (to occur)
- حصل verb (to occur)
- حصل verb (to occur)
- حَدَثَ verb (to occur)
Aramaic
1 entries- הוי verb (to occur)
Armenian
1 entries- պատահել verb (to occur)
Assamese
1 entries- ঘটা verb (to occur)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- olmaq verb (to occur)
- vaqe olmaq verb (to occur)
Bashkir
1 entries- булыу verb (to occur)
Basque
2 entries- bururatu verb (to occur)
- gertatu verb (to occur)
Belarusian
4 entries- адбы́цца verb (to occur)
- адбыва́цца verb (to occur)
- зда́рыцца verb (to occur)
- здара́цца verb (to occur)
Bengali
1 entries- ঘটা verb (to occur)
Bulgarian
2 entries- слу́чвам се verb (to occur)
- ста́вам verb (to occur)
Burmese
1 entries- ဖြစ် verb (to occur)
Campidanese Sardinian
2 entries- accadésseri verb (to occur)
- sutzediri verb (to occur)
Catalan
3 entries- ocórrer verb (to occur)
- passar verb (to occur)
- succeir verb (to occur)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏂᎦᎵᏍᏗᎭ verb (to occur)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 發生 /发生 verb (to occur)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 發生 /发生 verb (to occur)
Czech
3 entries- dít se verb (to occur)
- dějít se verb (to occur)
- stát se verb (to occur)
Danish
4 entries- forefalde verb (to occur)
- hænde verb (to occur)
- indtræffe verb (to occur)
- ske verb (to occur)
Dutch
1 entries- gebeuren verb (to occur)
Esperanto
1 entries- okazi verb (to occur)
Estonian
2 entries- juhtuma verb (to occur)
- toimuma verb (to occur)
Faroese
2 entries- gerast verb (to occur)
- henda verb (to occur)
Finnish
4 entries- käydä verb (to occur)
- sattua verb (to occur)
- sattua verb (to occur by chance, unexpectedly)
- tapahtua verb (to occur)
French
4 entries- advenir verb (to occur)
- arriver verb (to occur)
- se passer verb (to occur)
- se produire verb (to occur)
Galician
4 entries- acaescer verb (to occur)
- acontecer verb (to occur)
- adergar verb (to occur)
- avir verb (to occur)
Gallurese
1 entries- avviné verb (to occur)
Georgian
1 entries- მოხდომა verb (to occur)
German
4 entries- geschehen verb (to occur)
- passiere verb (to occur)
- passieren verb (to occur)
- sich ereignen verb (to occur)
Greek
4 entries- γίνομαι verb (to occur)
- διαδραματίζομαι verb (to occur)
- λαχαίνω verb (to occur)
- σημειώνομαι verb (to occur)
Hawaiian
2 entries- hana verb (to occur)
- loʻohia verb (to occur)
Hebrew
3 entries- הִתְרַחֵשׁ verb (to occur)
- הָלַךְ verb (to occur)
- קָרָה verb (to occur)
Hindi
1 entries- बीतना verb (to occur)
Hungarian
3 entries- megesik verb (to occur)
- megtörténik verb (to occur)
- történik verb (to occur)
Icelandic
4 entries- bera við verb (to occur)
- gerast verb (to occur)
- henda verb (to occur)
- verða verb (to occur)
Ido
1 entries- eventar verb (to occur)
Indonesian
1 entries- terjadi verb (to occur)
Ingrian
1 entries- tapahtua verb (to occur)
Irish
1 entries- tarlaigh verb (to occur)
Italian
3 entries- accadere verb (to occur)
- occorrere verb (to occur)
- succedere verb (to occur)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- apm verb (to occur)
Japanese
2 entries- 起こる verb (to occur)
- 起る verb (to occur)
Kaitag
1 entries- арга́ра verb (to occur)
Kazakh
1 entries- болу verb (to occur)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- thǖvâu verb (to occur)
Khmer
2 entries- កើត verb (to occur)
- កើតឡើង verb (to occur)
Korean
2 entries- 발생하다 verb (to occur)
- 일어나다 verb (to occur)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- болуу verb (to occur)
Ladino
1 entries- afitar verb (to occur)
Lao
3 entries- ບັງເກີດ verb (to occur)
- ເກີດ verb (to occur)
- ເປັນ verb (to occur)
Latin
4 entries- accidō verb (to occur)
- cado verb (to occur)
- contingo verb (to occur)
- eo verb (to occur)
Latvian
1 entries- notik verb (to occur)
Lithuanian
3 entries- atsitikti verb (to occur)
- vykti verb (to occur)
- įvykti verb (to occur)
Luhya
1 entries- esihole verb (to occur)
Macedonian
2 entries- се случи verb (to occur)
- се случува verb (to occur)
Maore Comorian
1 entries- uhidjiri verb (to occur)
Mongolian
2 entries- болох verb (to occur)
- тохиолдох verb (to occur)
Māori
1 entries- ahatia verb (to occur)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- uhundra verb (to occur)
Nigerian Pidgin
1 entries- happun verb (to occur)
Norwegian
3 entries- hende verb (to occur)
- inntreffe verb (to occur)
- skje verb (to occur)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- foregå verb (to occur)
Old English
4 entries- weorþan verb (to occur)
- ġebyrian verb (to occur)
- ġelimpan verb (to occur)
- ġetīmian verb (to occur)
Old Irish
3 entries- ad·cumaing verb (to occur)
- do·ecmaing verb (to occur)
- for·cumaing verb (to occur)
Old Turkic
1 entries- 𐰉𐰆𐰞 verb (to occur)
Pannonian Rusyn
4 entries- збувац verb (to occur)
- збуц verb (to occur)
- случиц verb (to occur)
- случовац verb (to occur)
Persian
4 entries- اتفاق افتادن verb (to occur)
- روی دادن verb (to occur)
- واقع شدن verb (to occur)
- پیشامد کردن verb (to occur)
Polish
4 entries- dziać się verb (to occur)
- przypadkiem verb (to occur by chance, unexpectedly)
- stać się verb (to occur)
- trafiać się verb (to occur)
Portuguese
3 entries- acontecer verb (to occur)
- ocorrer verb (to occur)
- suceder verb (to occur)
Quechua
1 entries- tukuy verb (to occur)
Romagnol
1 entries- cadér verb (to occur)
Romanian
2 entries- petrece verb (to occur)
- întâmpla verb (to occur)
Russian
4 entries- произойти́ verb (to occur)
- происходи́ть verb (to occur)
- случа́ться verb (to occur)
- случи́ться verb (to occur)
Sardinian
1 entries- sutzèdere verb (to occur)
Sassarese
1 entries- accadí verb (to occur)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- tachair verb (to occur)
- turchair verb (to occur)
- tàrlaidh verb (to occur)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- desiti se verb (to occur)
- dogoditi se verb (to occur)
- десити се verb (to occur)
- догодити се verb (to occur)
Seri
1 entries- aaha verb (to occur)
Slovak
2 entries- stať sa verb (to occur)
- udiať sa verb (to occur)
Slovene
1 entries- zgodíti se verb (to occur)
Spanish
4 entries- acaecer verb (to occur)
- acontecer verb (to occur)
- advenir verb (to occur)
- avenir verb (to occur)
Swahili
2 entries- kutokea verb (to occur)
- kutukia verb (to occur)
Swedish
4 entries- förekomma verb (to occur)
- hända verb (to occur)
- inträffa verb (to occur)
- ske verb (to occur)
Tagalog
1 entries- mangyari verb (to occur)
Tajik
3 entries- воқеъ шудан verb (to occur)
- иттифоқ афтодан verb (to occur)
- рӯй додан verb (to occur)
Tamil
2 entries- ஆகு verb (to occur)
- நட verb (to occur)
Thai
1 entries- เกิด verb (to occur)
Tibetan
1 entries- བྱུང verb (to occur)
Turkish
4 entries- gerçekleşmek verb (to occur)
- meydana gelmek verb (to occur)
- olmak verb (to occur)
- oluşmak verb (to occur)
Turkmen
1 entries- bolmak verb (to occur)
Ukrainian
4 entries- відбу́тися verb (to occur)
- відбува́тися verb (to occur)
- зроби́тися verb (to occur)
- зчини́тися verb (to occur)
Urdu
2 entries- بیتنا verb (to occur)
- ہونا verb (to occur)
Uyghur
1 entries- يۈز بەرمەك verb (to occur)
Uzbek
3 entries- boʻlmoq verb (to occur)
- voqe boʻlmoq verb (to occur)
- yuz bermoq verb (to occur)
Vietnamese
2 entries- xảy ra verb (to occur)
- xảy đến verb (to occur)
Volapük
1 entries- jenön verb (to occur)
Walloon
3 entries- ariver verb (to occur)
- si passer verb (to occur)
- sorvini verb (to occur)
Welsh
1 entries- digwydd verb (to occur)
Yiddish
1 entries- געשען verb (to occur)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Let's consider the worst that could happen.
Source: tatoeba (1353)
I didn't want this to happen.
Source: tatoeba (1446)
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.
Source: tatoeba (1842)
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