geschehen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German geschehen, geschēn, geschegen, from Old High German giskehan, scehan, from Proto-West Germanic *skehan (“to spring, come up, emerge, happen”). Cognate to Dutch geschieden. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡəˈʃeːən/, /ɡəˈʃeːn/ Rhymes: -eːən === Verb === geschehen (class 5 strong, third-person singular present geschieht, past tense geschah, past participle geschehen, past subjunctive geschähe, auxiliary sein) (intransitive) to occur; to happen Synonym: passieren (intransitive) to happen [with mit (+ dative) or dative ‘to someone’] Synonym: passieren (impersonal) to serve right, to be deserved [with dative ‘someone’ and recht ‘right’] (in this construction passieren is not possible) Das geschieht ihm recht. ― That serves him right. ==== Usage notes ==== Only third-person forms of this verb are common. First- and second-person forms are very rare, though not impossible. For example, one could say in poetic speech: O Unglück! Wenn du geschiehst, dann geschieh bald! (“O misfortune! If thou happenest, then happen soon!”) In most regions, geschehen is rather formal, with passieren being the more normal word for “to happen”. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Geschehen Geschehnis ==== Related terms ==== Geschichte === Participle === geschehen past participle of geschehen (impersonal) over, lost, done for, doomed, dead [with um ‘for someone’] ==== Derived terms ==== gern geschehen ungeschehen === Further reading === “geschehen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “geschehen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “geschehen” in Duden online “geschehen” in OpenThesaurus.de