What (who) is happen - definition
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Make it Happen; Make It Happen (disambiguation); Make It Happen (song); Make It Happen (album)
Happen
·vi To take place; to Occur.
II. Happen ·vi To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
happen
(happens, happening, happened)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Something that happens occurs or is done without being planned.
We cannot say for sure what will happen...
VERB: V
2.
If something happens, it occurs as a result of a situation or course of action.
She wondered what would happen if her parents found her...
He trotted to the truck and switched on the ignition. Nothing happened.
VERB: V, V
3.
When something, especially something unpleasant, happens to you, it takes place and affects you.
If we had been spotted at that point, I don't know what would have happened to us...
VERB: V to n
4.
If you happen to do something, you do it by chance. If it happens that something is the case, it occurs by chance.
We happened to discover we had a friend in common...
If it happens that I'm wanted badly somewhere, my mother will take the call and phone through to me here.
VERB: V to-inf, it V that
5.
You use as it happens in order to introduce a statement, especially one that is rather surprising.
She called Amy to see if she had any idea of her son's whereabouts. As it happened, Amy had.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR with cl
happen
v. n.
Chance, occur, befall, betide, come, take place, turn up, fall out, come to pass.
Pronunciation examples for happen
1. happen than will happen.
The Devil's Financial Dictionary and The Intelligent Investor _ Jason Zweig _ Talks at Google
2. happen.
Overload _ Jonathan Spira _ Talks at Google
3. happen.
The Customer Playbook _ Peter Fader & Sarah Toms _ Talks at Google
4. happen.
Is Our Purpose in Life to Have Fun _ Chris Koch _ Talks at Google
5. happen.
Girling Up - How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular _ Mayim Bialik _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of happen
1. "What‘s going to happen here is going to happen."
2. You never know what will happen, but something will happen.
3. These things happen in football, they always happen.
4. "I understood that it could happen, but I had no idea when it would happen or if it would happen.
5. And I believe that that can happen, and I think it will happen, and it may happen with our support.