粵

發faat3生sang1

simp发生
faat3 sang1fā shēng

English

  1. to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 發生問題|发生问题[fa1 sheng1 wen4 ti2] "a problem arises")
  2. to occur; to happen; to have an event or incident

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 出現; 冇預期嘅事出現咗

Examples

  • 發生乜嘢事呀?

    What's happened?

    Tatoeba · fercheung CC BY

  • 我覺得會發生。

    I think it could happen.

    Tatoeba · kaenif CC BY

  • 總有怪事發生。

    Strange things happen.

    Tatoeba · thesilhouette CC BY

  • 我唔想知會發生咩事。

    I don't want to know what's going to happen.

    Tatoeba · kaenif CC BY

  • 尋日發生咗一場地震。

    There was an earthquake yesterday.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 我唔想俾呢件事發生。

    I don't want to let that happen.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 發生意外

    to have an accident

  • 做咩喊呀,發生咩事?

    Why are you crying? What's happened?

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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