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happens on

happens on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of happen on.

Meaning of happen on

Verb

happen on (third-person singular simple present happens on, present participle happening on, simple past and past participle happened on)

  1. to find by chance
    • Yesterday I happened on the solution while we were seeing a movie on the couch; such things just happen along, by sheer happenstance.

Questions about happens on

What is happens on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Happens on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of happen on.

Words near happens on in the dictionary

  1. happenings
  2. happens
  3. happens across
  4. happens along
  5. happens by
  6. happens on
  7. happens upon
  8. happenstance
  9. happenstances
  10. happenstantial
  11. happenstantially

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Adapted from Wiktionary: happens on (page history and authors); happen on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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