起こる

Kana: おこる

to happen

Example sentence

事故が起こることもあります。

じこがおこることもあります。

Accidents can happen too.

What 起こる means

起こる (おこる) is a Japanese word meaning “to happen”. It belongs to the Actions & Verbs topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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