suceder

From Latin succēdere.

• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Hyphenation: su‧ce‧der

suceder (first-person singular present sucedo, first-person singular preterite sucedín, past participle sucedido)
suceder (first-person singular present sucedo, first-person singular preterite sucedim or sucedi, past participle sucedido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to happen
2. to follow, to succeed

• suceso

• “suceder”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “suceder” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• soceder, succeder, socceder (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin succēdere.

• Hyphenation: su‧ce‧der

suceder (first-person singular present sucedo, first-person singular preterite sucedi, past participle sucedido)

1. to happen
2. to succeed to, to follow

• sucessivo
• sucessor

• “suceder” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

From Latin succēdere. The meaning of "to be successful" was lost from this verb and given to the verb conseguir and the verb phrase "tener éxito".

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /suθeˈdeɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /suseˈdeɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: su‧ce‧der

suceder (first-person singular present sucedo, first-person singular preterite sucedí, past participle sucedido)

1. to happen, to befall, to occur

   Synonyms: ocurrir, pasar

   ¿Qué sucede? ― What’s the matter?

   Suceda lo que suceda ― Come what may.

   • c. 1935, Pablo Neruda, Walking Around:

     Sucede que me canso de mis pies y mis uñas / y mi pelo y mi sombra. / Sucede que me canso de ser hombre.

     It happens that I'm tired of my feet and nails / and my hair and my shadow. / It happens that I'm tired of being a man.

2. to succeed to, to follow

• “suceder”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10