happen
/ˈhæpən/ verb A1- To occur or take place. · Let me tell you how it happened.· I hear there're fireworks happening tonight.
- To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly. · Take an umbrella in case it happens to rain.· Do you happen to have an umbrella?
- To encounter by chance.
- To become popular or trendy.
He/she/it happens · Past happened · Past participle happened · -ing form happening
Verb forms
- Base form
- happen
- He/she/it
- happens
- Past
- happened
- Past participle
- happened
- -ing form
- happening
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next.
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.” For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice!
“Well, I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!”
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