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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn two new Spanish verbs that end with I-R, and let's start with the verb

Occurir, which means something like to occur.

This is spelled with only one C.

O, C, U-R-R-I-R, I-R.

Occuririr.

Now, one meaning of this verb is to occur, as in to happen.

In this sense, it can be a synonym for both passar and suceder.

So, for example, the sentence,

these things happen sometimes, could be translated any of the following ways.

These things passan a basis. These things are a times. These things occur a basis. However, in our quizzing, we're generally going to translate happen as passar and occur as suceder.

But what's handy about the verb occurir specifically is that it can mean occur in a different sense.

Note that in English we use the verb occur in two different ways. In one sense,

we can say, that occurred yesterday, where occurred is a synonym for happened. But what about this use?

Something strange occurred to me. In this sentence, occurred doesn't mean happened. What we actually mean here is that I

realized something or came up with something. Now, we already know that the Spanish idiom for realized is

darse quenta. But we'll use that idiom where we specifically use the term Realize in English.

For occurring, we're going to use a different idiom,

specifically an idiom that uses the pronominal version of occurir.

Check this sentence out.

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