gebeuren.
to happen
Meaning & usage
to happen
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch geburen, from Old Dutch geburien (“to happen, occur”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaburjan, from Proto-Germanic *gaburjaną. Equivalent to ge- + beuren. Cognate with West Frisian barre (“to happen”) and German gebühren (“to be due, owed”); further with Low German geböhren and Old English ġebyrian, which show both of these senses.
something which is happening or which happened; event
Where this word comes from
Gerund of the verb gebeuren.
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