gschehn

== Bavarian == === Alternative forms === gscheng === 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 German geschehen and Dutch geschieden. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kʃe̞ːn/, /kʃe̞ːŋ/ === Verb === gschehn (past participle gschehn or gscheng) (intransitive) to occur; to happen Synonym: passiern Wia håt des nur gschehn kenna? ― How could that have happened? (intransitive) to happen [with mit (+ dative) or dative ‘to someone’] Synonym: passiern Wås is'n mit dir gschehn? ― What happened to you? (impersonal) to serve right, to be deserved [with dative ‘someone’ and recht ‘right’] (in this construction passiern is not possible) Des gschicht eam 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 Unglick! Wånn du gschichst, dånn gschich boid! (“O misfortune! If thou happenest, then happen soon!”) ==== Conjugation ====