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stať

  • to happen
  • to become
Verbs #16 Verbs

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How to use it

Stať sa means happen or become — not the same lemma as stáť (stand / cost).

In a sentence

stať sa — happen

  • Čo sa stalo?

    What happened?

stať sa + noun — become

  • Stal sa učiteľom.

    He became a teacher.

Other

  • Povážme, čo najhoršie by sa mohlo stať.

    Let's consider the worst that could happen.

    Tatoeba #8862459

  • Muselo sa to niekde stať.

    It had to happen somewhere.

    Tatoeba #8975863

Examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).

Source

Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗

English gloss from the frequency publish path. Includes Tatoeba example sentences when present.

Full attribution on References.