Was heißt »wi­der­fah­ren« auf Englisch?

Das Verb wi­der­fah­ren lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • befall (to befall)
  • happen (to happen)
  • occur (to occur)

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Tom meint, dass ihm nichts Schlimmes widerfahren kann.

Tom thinks that nothing bad can happen to him.

Selig ist, wer da nichts erwartet, denn ihm wird nie Enttäuschung widerfahren.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he will never be disillusioned.

Es ist alles lustig, solange es einem anderen widerfährt.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Was ist Tom widerfahren?

What happened to Tom?

Weißt du noch, wie du dich fühltest, als dir das Gleiche widerfuhr?

Do you remember how it felt when the same thing happened to you?

Ich will nicht, dass dir etwas Schlechtes widerfährt.

I don't want anything bad to happen to you.

Tom muss das Gleiche widerfahren sein.

The same thing must've happened to Tom.

Ich will nicht, dass mir das Gleiche widerfährt.

I don't want the same thing to happen to me.

Ich stürbe, wenn mir das widerführe!

I'd die if that happened to me.

Aus Fahrlässigkeit ist dir das widerfahren.

The reason that happened to you was because you weren't careful.

The reason that that happened to you was because you weren't careful.

That happened to you because you were careless.

Wenn Tom das passiert ist, dann kann es auch mir widerfahren.

If it happened to Tom, it could happen to me.

Meine Mutter pflegte immer zu sagen: „Es kommt im Leben nicht darauf an, was einem widerfährt, sondern darauf, wie man damit umgeht.“

My mother always said, “It’s not what happens to you in life that matters, it’s how you deal with it.”

Jubele über das Gute, das auf dich zukommt, aber mäßige deine Trauer über das Böse, das dir widerfährt.

Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.

O weh, welch Unglück widerfährt mir!

Alas, what ill luck has befallen me!

Synonyme

er­le­ben:
experience
pas­sie­ren:
cross
pass
vor­kom­men:
advance
zu­sto­ßen:
attack
stab
thrust

Sinnverwandte Wörter

be­geg­nen:
encounter
meet
be­tref­fen:
concern
zu­teil­wer­den:
be bestowed
be given
be granted
fall to the share

Englische Beispielsätze

  • I want to know when that'll happen.

  • The Perseids occur when Earth enters the debris field left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle.

  • Everybody knows that's not going to happen.

  • Everybody knows that that's not going to happen.

  • I believe that that won't happen.

  • Thankfully, that didn't happen.

  • Could longer space flights to Mars and beyond happen 50 years in the future?

  • Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

  • Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

  • Tom knew exactly what was going to happen.

  • Let's see what'll happen.

  • I knew that it was going to happen.

  • I hope that it doesn't ever happen.

  • I'm sorry. I didn't mean for any of this to happen.

  • Nothing is gonna happen overnight.

  • When did the incident occur?

  • I said that it's not going to happen.

  • It could happen to you, too.

  • That probably didn't happen.

  • No one knows what will happen next.

Wi­der­fah­ren übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: widerfahren. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: widerfahren. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
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