geschehen

B1 Verb frequency rank #1,011

What geschehen means

Verb

to occur; to happen
to happen
to serve right, to be deserved [with dative ‘someone’ and recht ‘right’] (in this construction passieren is not possible)

Forms

geschehen · geschieht · geschah · ist geschehen (mit + Dativ)

Pronunciation

geschehen in a sentence

Was ist geschehen, dass du doch bleiben willst?

What happened that made you want to stay?

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geschehen is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #1,011 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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