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passieren

[paˈsiːʁən]

verb

LanguageGerman (Germany)

Meaning
  1. to happen
  2. to move beyond; pass
  3. to pass through a sieve, to strain
  4. To happen means for an event to take place. It can also mean to pass or move past something, like a border.
Examples

Wie konnte das nur passieren?

How could that have happened?

Pronunciationpaˈsiːʁən

Part of speechverb

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.