Happening

Definition

happen /'hæpǝn/ v ၁။ ျဖစ္သည္။ ျဖစ္ေပၚသည္။ ျဖစ္ပ်က္သည္။ How did the accident happen? ❍ What happened next? ❍ Whatever happens, don't let me forget to ring Jack. ❍ I'd stay if they promoted me, but I can't see that actually happening. ၂။ တိုက္ဆိုင္သည္။ ႀကံဳႀကိဳက္သည္။ ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ She happened to be out/ It happened that she was out when he called. He happens to be a friend of mine. ❏ as it happens/ happened [ IDM ] (used before saying sth surprising) တကယ္ေတာ့။ အမွန္ေတာ့။ We met her only yesterday, as it happens. ❏ happening /'hæpǝnÇŋ/ n (က) (usu pl ) အျဖစ္။ ျဖစ္စဥ္။ အျဖစ္သနစ္။ The book describes the day-to-day happenings of a small country town. ❍ There have been strange happenings here lately. ❍ OCCURRENCE (ခ) ႀကံဳရာက်ပန္း၊ စည္းလြတ္ဝါးလြတ္ ေပ်ာ္ပြဲ။ ❏ happen on sth [ PHRV ] ( dated ) အမွတ္မထင္ေတြ႕သည္။ ကံအားေလ်ာ္စြာေတြ႕သည္။ ❏ happen to sb/ sth [ PHRV ] (esp with a pronoun as subject) (ဘာ) ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ I hope nothing (ie nothing unpleasant) has happened to them. ❍ What's happened to your car? ❏ it (just) so happens that… [ IDM ] အေၾကာင္းအားေလ်ာ္ စြာ။ ျဖစ္ခ်င္ေတာ့။ ‘You haven't got a pair of scissors in your bag, have you?’ ‘Well, it just so happens that I have. ’

Examples

1. The accident happened at 4.30 pm yesterday.
2. He seemed to be unaware of what was happening around him.
3. What happens if I press this button?
4. [see what happens] : Let’s just wait and see what happens.