ocurra

happen, occurs

Examples

Espero que esto no ocurra otra vez.

I hope that doesn't happen again.

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Nunca permitiré que eso ocurra de nuevo.

I'll never let that happen again.

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Espero que ocurra.

I'm hoping that will happen.

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No permitiré que eso ocurra.

I won't let that happen.

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Nada ocurre si no provocas que ocurra.

Nothing happens unless you make it happen.

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A pesar de tener un sistema reproductor masculino y femenino, la lombriz necesita de otro individuo para que la fecundación ocurra.

Despite having a masculine and feminine reproductive system, the earthworm requires another individual for fertilization to occur..

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No creo que ocurra esta noche.

I don't think it's going to happen tonight.

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Para mi sorpresa, desde que Tatoeba se restableció, nadie ha hecho correcciones a mis oraciones. O mi inglés ha mejorado rápidamente y ahora hago solo buenas oraciones - que es bastante dudoso, o los usuarios simplemente han decidido dejarme en paz y permitirme escribir lo que se me ocurra.

To my surprise, since Tatoeba has been back up, nobody has made any corrections to my sentences. Either my English has rapidly improved and I now produce good sentences only, which is way doubtful, or the users have simply decided to leave me alone and let me write whatever comes to my mind.

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Hagamos un concurso. Aquel bando al que se le ocurra el peor insulto, gana.

Let's have a contest. The side to come up with the worst insult wins.

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¡Que no se te ocurra meter animalitos al microondas!

Don’t put small animals in the microwave!

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No puedo permitir que eso ocurra.

I can't allow that to happen.

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Espero que se le ocurra una nueva y buena idea.

I hope he will come up with a new and good idea.

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Es improbable que ocurra algo grave.

It's unlikely that anything serious will happen.

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Ocurra lo que ocurra, ya me he hecho a la idea.

Come what may, I'm ready for it.

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El tiempo es lo que evita que todo ocurra de golpe.

Time is the thing that keeps everything from happening at once.

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Todos nosotros queremos que ocurra lo mismo.

We all want the same thing to happen.

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Es probable que un accidente así ocurra de nuevo.

Such an accident is likely to happen again.

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Yo deseo que ocurra.

I'm hoping that will happen.

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Tom no quiere que ocurra lo mismo aquí.

Tom doesn't want the same thing to happen here.

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Aquél al que sólo se le ocurra una forma de escribir una palabra obviamente no tiene imaginación.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

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