发生

發生

fāshēng

verb HSK 3 #184

Meanings

Fāshēng le shénme shì?

What happened?

Zuótiān fāshēng le yī chǎng jiāotōng shìgù.

A traffic accident happened yesterday.

Zhè zhǒng shìqing bù huì zài fāshēng le.

This kind of thing won't happen again.

grammar

发生 cannot take an object directly — things 'happen,' you don't 'happen' something. It's intransitive. Use 发生了什么事 (what happened), not *发生一个事故.

mistakes

Don't confuse 发生 (to happen, always about events) with 出现 (to appear/emerge, about things showing up).

发 fā

生 shēng