geschehen

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), geschēn, geschegen, from Old High German giskehan, scehan, from Proto-West Germanic *skehan (“to spring, come up, emerge, happen”). Cognate to Dutch geschieden.

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈʃeːən/, /ɡəˈʃeːn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːən

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

1. (intransitive) to occur; to happen

   Synonym: passieren

   Wie konnte das nur geschehen?

   How could that have happened?

   Dein Wille geschehe, wie im Himmel so auf Erden.

   Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. (Lord's Prayer)

2. (intransitive, with mit or with bare dative) to happen to (someone)

   Synonym: passieren

   Was ist (mit) dir geschehen?

   What happened to you?

3. (impersonal, with dative and recht) to serve (someone) right (in this construction passieren is not possible)

   Das geschieht ihm recht. ― That serves him right.

• 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”.

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Geschehen
• Geschehnis

• Geschichte

geschehen

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
2. (impersonal, with um) over, lost, done for, doomed, dead

   Um den ist es geschehen.

   He's done for.

• gern geschehen
• ungeschehen

• “geschehen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “geschehen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “geschehen” in Duden online
• “geschehen” in OpenThesaurus.de