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حَدَث
to happen /ˈħa.da.θa/
verbA1#86 most common
Also: to occur, to take place, to come about
Example sentences
ماذا حَدَثَ؟
What happened?
حَدَثَ شَيْءٌ غَريبٌ اليَوْمَ.
Something strange happened today.
هٰذِهِ الأَشْياءُ تَحْدُثُ أَحْيانًا.
These things happen sometimes.
لَمْ أَفْهَمْ ما الَّذي حَدَثَ بِالضَّبْطِ في الِاجْتِماعِ.
I didn't understand exactly what happened in the meeting.
مَهْما يَحْدُثْ، فَلَنْ أَتْرُكَكَ وَحْدَكَ.
Whatever happens, I won't leave you alone.
لَوْ لَمْ تَحْدُثْ تِلْكَ الحَرْبُ، لَكانَ مَصيرُ المِنْطَقَةِ مُخْتَلِفًا تَمامًا.
Had that war not happened, the region's fate would have been entirely different.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَحْدُثُ | حَدَثْتُ | سَأَحْدُثُ |
| 2sg | تَحْدُثُ | حَدَثْتَ | سَتَحْدُثُ |
| 3sg | يَحْدُثُ | حَدَثَ | سَيَحْدُثُ |
| 1pl | نَحْدُثُ | حَدَثْنَا | سَنَحْدُثُ |
| 2pl | تَحْدُثُونَ | حَدَثْتُمْ | سَتَحْدُثُونَ |
| 3pl | يَحْدُثُونَ | حَدَثُوا | سَيَحْدُثُونَ |
Word family
حَدَث (ḥadath)event, occurrence
حادِثة (ḥāditha)accident, incident
تَحَدَّثَ (taḥaddatha)to talk, speak
حَداثة (ḥadātha)modernity
حَديث (ḥadīth)new, modern, recent
Etymology
حَدَثَ derives from the Proto-Semitic triliteral root *ḥ-d-ṯ, whose core sense is 'to be new, to come into being.' From this notion of newness the Arabic verb developed the meaning 'to happen, occur, take place' — i.e., for something new to come about. The same root yields حَديث ('new; speech; Hadith') and حَداثة ('modernity'), all bound by the idea of newness. Cognates appear across Semitic, e.g. Hebrew חָדָשׁ (ḥādāš) 'new' and Akkadian edēšu 'to be new.'
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