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happen /ˡhæpn/ intransitive verb capitare, succedere;
as it ~s per caso;
I ~ed to meet him mi è capitato di incontrarlo;
what has ~ed to him? cosa gli è capitato?;
(become of) che fine ha fatto?

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'happen' found in these entries:

English:

destined - time-frame - transpire - whenever

Italian:

accadere - avvenire - capitare - fasciarsi - prodursi - rinnovarsi - riprodursi - sopraggiungere - sopravvenire - succedere - succedersi - toccare

happen: WordReference English-Italian Dictionary © 2009

Principal Translations/Traduzioni principali
happen	vi	(occur)	accadere, succedere vi ⇒ ⇒
A lot of things have happened since last year.
Un sacco di cose sono accadute (or: successe) dallo scorso anno.
happen	vi	(have fortune to do)	capitare vi ⇒
I happened to read about it in the paper.
Mi è capitato di leggerlo sul giornale.
happen	vi	(befall) capitare	succedere vi ⇒
I didn't work hard for it, it just happened!
Non mi sono impegnato per questo, è successo e basta!
Additional Translations
happen	vi	(come to pass)	capitare per caso vi
			darsi il caso vrif
If he happens to call, please let me know.
It happened to rain.
Se per caso gli capita di chiamare, per favore dimmelo.
Si dà il caso che piova.
happen	vi	(be or do by chance) idiomatica, casualmente	per caso, per fortuna avv
He happened to have an extra umbrella with him.
Per caso aveva con sé un altro ombrello.
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Compound Forms/Forme composte
about to happen		sta per accadere	in procinto di accadere
going to happen			che accadrà
happen along			passare per caso
happen by	vtr	(chance upon, come across)	trovarsi v rif
Whilst in town, I happened by a photographic store and bought myself a new digicam.
Mentre ero in città mi sono trovato davanti a un negozio di fotografia e mi sono comprato una nuova fotocamera digitale.
			capitare vi ⇒
Whilst in town, I happened by a photographic store and bought myself a new digicam.
Ho scoperto un bellissimo giardino in mezzo ai palazzi: ci sono capitato per caso mentre girovagavo per il quartiere.
		casualmente	passare da, passare davanti a vi
Whilst in town, I happened by a photographic store and bought myself a new digicam.
Passavo da là proprio in quel momento e ho visto l'incidente con i miei occhi.
happen by chance			capitare per caso
happen on			incontrare; trovare per caso
happen to	vtr	(chance to)	mica, per caso avv
Did you happen to see my keys?
Hai mica visto le mie chiavi?
			capitare di vi
Did you happen to see my keys?
Per caso ti è capitato di usare il nuovo Windows? Cosa ne pensi?
happen to be			trovarsi per caso
happen upon			incontrare; trovare per caso
make it happen			renderlo possibile
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Forum discussions with the word(s) 'happen' in the title:
Discussioni nei forum nel cui titolo è presente la parola 'happen':

a legend that was not supposed to happen
anybody could see this was going to happen
bound to happen
by jogging things happen there
couldn't happen
differences between to happen and to come about
does it never happen...
Everything has the right timing to happen. We can only wait.
happen
happen - succedere, accadere, avvenire, capitare, trasparire
happen to be
happen to be alive
happen to/ by chance
I don't happen to
I feel like it was meant to happen
I have the feeling that something is about to happen
I promise to never let anything happen to our relationship
I thought that we would happen
I used to hope it would never happen
I went through his old interviews and happen to came across that
I wish that could happen
I've seen this happen
If I knew this was going to happen
If something should happen
If you happen to be in X
It just so happen
It shouldn't happen to a dog
it will never happen again
It wouldn't happen to be this cooking pot, would it?
Less congestion: the Charge is helping it happen
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