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geschehen means "to happen" or "to occur." It's an impersonal verb, so it doesn't take a personal subject; instead, you often use es as a dummy subject.
Es geschieht etwas. = "Something is happening."Was ist geschehen? = "What happened?"Ein Unfall ist geschehen. = "An accident occurred."Tense forms: geschieht (present), geschah (simple past), ist geschehen (past participle with sein)
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