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, 2012–2026
• “suceder”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

• succeder (pre-standardization spelling)
• soceder, socceder (obsolete)

Learned borrowing from Latin succēdere.

• Hyphenation: su‧ce‧der

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

1. to happen
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O Romance de Adelina [Adelina’s romance]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 134:

     Mas como foi que tudo isto succedeu? pergun­tas tu cheia de pasmo.

     But how was it that all of this happened? you ask agasp.

2. to succeed to, to follow

• sucessivo
• sucessor

• “suceder”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “suceder” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “suceder”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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): /suθeˈdeɾ/ [su.θeˈð̞eɾ] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /suseˈdeɾ/ [su.seˈð̞eɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: su‧ce‧der

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

1. (impersonal) 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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense