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How to pronounce happen in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bump, chance, encounter, find


I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here.
Type Words
Synonyms materialise, materialize
Type of come about, pass, go on, occur, hap, pass off, fall out, take place
Has types appear, come out
Type Words
Synonyms come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place
Has types come off, come up, concur, contemporise, contemporize, develop, fall, give, go, go off, go over, anticipate, arise, backfire, backlash, bechance, befall, betide, break, chance, coincide, come, come around, repeat, result, roll around, shine, strike, supervene, synchronise, synchronize, transpire, turn out, intervene, materialise, materialize, proceed, recoil, recrudesce, recur
Derivation happening


What is happening?.
Type Words
Synonyms bechance, befall
Type of pass, go on, pass off, fall out, take place, come about, occur, hap


It happens that today is my birthday.
Type Words
Type of chance
Verb group bechance, befall


I happen to have just what you need!.

Examples of happen

happen
We're each responsible for taking charge and making things happen for ourselves.
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Some events are cause and effect and some events are simply because they happen.
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So what would happen if you put that natural human behaviour into an iPhone app?
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Asked to predict what will happen next, Seitz offers up a little history lesson.
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Emergencies happen, and you can rest easy knowing you have things under control.
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After all, we have seen the same thing happen to jeans, to watches and to shoes.
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The notion that we somehow try to eliminate that, it's just not going to happen.
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In those circumstances, what could plausibly happen to keep Pujols in St. Louis?
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I've had unhappy clients, but she's the last one you'd expect this to happen to.
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More examples
  • Come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
  • Happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)
  • Chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"
  • Come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"
  • Find: 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"
  • (happening) an event that happens
  • A happening is a performance, event or situation meant to be considered as an art, usually as performance art. ...
  • (The Happening (2008 film)) The Happening is an American thriller film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan that follows a man and his family as they try to escape from an inexplicable natural disaster. ...
  • (The Happening (2008 soundtrack)) The Happening is the soundtrack of the film of the same name. It was released on June 3, 2008. This album is the sixth collaboration between composer James Newton Howard and Shyamalan. ...