Verb
att hända
to happen
Beginnerverb
Meaning
att hända is the Swedish word for to happen — a verb you meet early when building Swedish vocabulary. Learn it in context with the example below, hear the pronunciation, then lock it into memory by playing it in the free LearnSwedishFast arcade game.
Example
Vad hände i staden igår?
What happened in the city yesterday?
Short, natural learner sentences—meant for memory, not dictionary citations.
Word forms
Common inflected forms of att hända you will see while reading Swedish.
- hända
- hände
- händer
- hänt