happened
past simple and past participle of
happen
Significado de happened en inglés
happen verb [I] (HAVE EXISTENCE)
- It is frightening to think what might happen if she left him.
- I cannot predict what will happen next year.
- I could tell from her expression that something serious had happened.
- The police showed him a photo to try to jog his memory about what had happened on the night of the robbery.
- "Do you remember much about the accident?" "No, it all happened so suddenly."
happen verb [I] (CHANCE)
C1
to do or be by chance:
[ + to infinitive ] They happened to look (= looked by chance) in the right place almost immediately.
[ + (that) ] Fortunately it happened (that) there was no one in the house at the time of the explosion.
[ + that ] It just so happens that I have her phone number right here.
happen to She happens to like cleaning (= she likes cleaning, although that is surprising).
- On Sundays I just wear any old thing that I happen to find lying around.
- Did she happen to mention whether she would be coming?
- I just happened to be walking past when he came out of the shop.
- Jack happens to be a cousin of mine, so I'll introduce you to him.
- Do you happen to know what time the next bus is due?
Verbos frasales
Ejemplos de happened
happened
En inglés, muchos participios pasados y presentes se pueden usar como adjetivos. Algunos de los ejemplos a continuación puede que muestren su uso como adjetivo.
Yet, as stated above, its discovery happened at a time when it was still not visible.
Little that happened there found its way into classical texts, their epigraphy is typically meager, and so they are known above all by archaeology.
Further information was also given relating to age at first experience, whether the experience was wanted or unwanted, and whether the experience had happened repeatedly.
Eight women (20 %) in this group thought it unlikely that their pregnancies would be discovered, but didn't mind if this happened.
But what has happened with this aesthetic, ecological concern is that it has been elevated to the status of a moral absolute.
This has served as a benchmark for what happened when the challenge of dementia care arose.
It happened mainly in clarification exchanges (when users sometimes formulated their queries more than once).
This happened as a consequence of parasites adapting to hosts from different geographical regions and under variable environmental conditions.
There seems to be no settled agreement about what happened, let alone why it matters.
This also happened in the late 1970s when construction of the natural gas network was delegated to the state-owned oil and gas utility.
This had happened by the time of the appearance of two-word utterances, and priority was then given to noting down new utterances.
This might have happened repeatedly in the millennia that followed.
How frequently this happened and what degree of complexity resulted depended upon the composition of the offspring groups and the workings of mortality.
Eventually, the opponents had to capitulate in all three countries, but the manner in which this happened was not the same.
The sentiment, the meaning, the lyrics, the rhythm, just happened.
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