Today’s Spanish word of the day is “suceder”.
It’s a verb meaning “to happen”. It can also mean “to succeed” in the sense of “to follow”.
If you want to talk about “succeeding” as in achieving, you wouldn’t use the verb “suceder”. You could instead use the verb “lograr” (“to manage/achieve”), or an expression such as “tener éxito” (literally “to have success”).
The word “suceder” comes from Latin succedere, meaning “to come after”. This is also the root of the English word “succeed”, as well as related terms such as “successive” and “succession”.
“Suceder” is a regular verb that has the same conjugation pattern as other regular -er verbs.
Example sentences
No sé qué va a suceder mañana.
I don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow.
Había sucedido todo tan rápido que nadie reaccionó a tiempo.
Everything had happened so quickly that no one reacted in time.
¿Qué suele suceder durante el festival?
What usually happens during the festival?
No entiendo cómo pudo suceder algo así.
I don’t understand how something like that could happen.
Se dice que algo extraño sucedió en este lugar hace muchos años.
They say something strange happened in this place many years ago.
