happened in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for happened in the English»French Dictionary

happen [Brit ˈhap(ə)n, Am ˈhæpən] VB intr

1. happen (occur):

happen

arriver, se passer, se produire

when/where/how did it happen?

quand/où/comment est-ce arrivé?, quand/où/comment cela s'est-il passé or produit?

what's happening?

qu'est-ce qui se passe?

the accident happened yesterday

l'accident est arrivé or s'est produit hier

I wonder what will happen next

je me demande ce qui va arriver or se passer maintenant

we must make sure this never happens again

nous devons faire en sorte que cela ne se reproduise jamais

you cannot expect the change to happen overnight

ne t'attends pas à ce que le changement se produise du jour au lendemain

so much has happened since our last meeting

il s'est passé tant de choses depuis notre dernière rencontre

he reacted as if nothing had happened

il a réagi comme si de rien n'était

whatever happens, don't get out of the car

quoi qu'il arrive, ne sors pas de la voiture

it had to happen , it was bound to happen Brit

ça devait arriver

miracles do happen!

les miracles, ça arrive!

it may happen that …, it can happen that …

il arrive parfois que …

how does it happen or how can it happen that such problems are ignored?

comment se fait-il qu'on ne prête pas attention à de tels problèmes?

success doesn't just happen!

le succès n'arrive pas comme ça!

anything might happen!

on peut s'attendre à tout!

she's the sort of person who makes things happen

elle fait bouger les choses

2. happen (befall):

to happen to sb

arriver à qn

the worst thing that can happen to a man like him is

la pire chose qui puisse arriver à un homme comme lui, c'est

old age/death is something that happens to us all

la vieillesse/la mort nous attend tous

3. happen (occur by chance):

there happens/happened to be a free parking space

il se trouve qu'il y a/qu'il y avait une place libre

we happened to be there when she appeared

nous nous trouvions là par hasard quand elle est arrivée

it so happens that I have an example right here

il se trouve que j'ai un exemple juste ici

as it happened, the weather that day was bad

il s'est trouvé qu'il faisait mauvais ce jour-là

if you happen to see her say hello

si par hasard tu la vois, salue-la de ma part

do you happen to have his phone number?

aurais-tu par hasard son numéro de téléphone?

4. happen (materialize):

happen

arriver

the promised reforms never happened

les réformes promises ne sont jamais arrivées

5. happen (go wrong, cause harm):

happen

arriver

if anything happens to Dinah, I shall never forgive myself

s'il arrive quoi que ce soit à Dinah, je ne me le pardonnerai jamais

do you think anything will happen?

penses-tu qu'il va arriver quelque chose?

6. happen (become of):

happen

devenir

what will happen to the children?

que deviendront les enfants?

what happened to all those fine promises?

que sont devenues toutes ces belles promesses?

7. happen (used indignantly, assertively):

he just happens to be the best actor in Britain!

il se trouve que c'est le meilleur acteur de Grande-Bretagne!

sorry, but I happen to disagree

désolé, mais je ne suis pas d'accord

I.happen on VB [Brit ˈhap(ə)n -, Am ˈhæpən -] (happen on [sth])

happen on object:

happen on

trouver [qc] par hasard, tomber sur [qc]

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to ascertain what had happened

pour établir ce qui s'était passé

the damnedest thing happened yesterday

quelque chose d'incroyable s'est produit hier

opportunely happen, come along

au moment opportun

suddenly happen

tout à coup, tout d'un coup

Translations for happened in the French»English Dictionary

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ce qui s'est passé, tu l'as vu toi-même

you yourself saw what happened, you saw with your own eyes what happened

indépendamment de ce qui s'est passé, vous avez des devoirs à remplir

regardless of what has happened, you have obligations to fulfil

ça s'est passé hier, authentique! inf

it happened yesterday, it really did! ou that's the honest truth!

(inévitablement) ça devait mathématiquement arriver

it was bound to happen

happened in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for happened in the English»French Dictionary

I.happen [ˈhæpən] VB intr

happen

arriver

to happen to sb

arriver à qn

whatever happens

quoi qu'il arrive

to happen again

se reproduire

II.happen [ˈhæpən] VB trans

it happens that ...

il se trouve que ...

to happen to do sth

faire qc par hasard

I happen to do sth

il se trouve que je fais qc

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it happened during the night

c'est arrivé au cours de la nuit

stranger things have happened

tout peut arriver

Translations for happened in the French»English Dictionary

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il y a du neuf

something new has happened

ces deux événements sont distants de plusieurs années

these two events happened several years apart

je réaffirme que les choses se sont passées ainsi

I reaffirm that that's how things happened

se reproduire (se répéter)

to happen again

ça n'a pas loupé

it happened all right

il demeure que c'est arrivé

it still happened

advenir

to happen

happened Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to tell sb what happened/where sth is

dire à qn ce qui s'est passé/où se trouve qc

to tell sb (about) what happened

raconter qc à qn

it happened during the night

c'est arrivé au cours de la nuit

his death need never have happened so soon

sa mort n'aurait jamais dû arriver si tôt

to carry on as if nothing has happened

faire comme si rien ne s'était passé

if ever anything bad happened to me

si jamais il m'arrivait malheur

I reaffirm that that's how things happened

je réaffirme que les choses se sont passées ainsi

but in the end it never happened

mais finalement ça ne s'est pas fait

this incident happened a few days ago

cet incident remonte à quelques jours

these two events happened several years apart

ces deux événements sont distants de plusieurs années

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Telly finds herself living a normal life, although she remembers everything that has happened.

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The switchboard operator remembers feeling that "something bad had happened" to her predecessor.

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His third offensive happened early in the morning of the third day but his army was utterly annihilated.

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It said that emerging economies remain vulnerable to trade and financial shocks that could strongly affect volume of their exports and the prices of primary commodities, as happened in 2008.

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Narrating, how his encounter with death, which could be described as a tragicomedy happened.

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This change happened as they became more sedentary.

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The league was responsible for what happened to the union members who were swept up in the dragnet following the blast.

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When this happened, the market day would be moved to the next day, which was the bissextile (leap) day.

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Or has something more sinister happened to her?

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The last time this spectacle happened was in 2006.

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