To Occur
To Happen, To Take Place
intransitive verb, godan verb
You know that 起きる means "to wake up", but did you learn its secondary meaning, "to occur"? Well, this word means only to occur. Just imagine an incident occurring involving a uranium core (こる) to remember that this means to occur. After all, uranium core incidents don't wake up, do they?
The reading is the same as what you learned with the kanji and the same as 起きる too, meaning you should be able to put together the reading on your own.
出血が起こる
bleeding occurs
トラブルが起こる
trouble occurs
戦争が起こる
war occurs
世界中で起こる
to take place throughout the world
アジアで起こる
to take place in Asia
社会で起こる
to take place in society
自分に起こる
to happen to oneself
２０１２年に起こる
to occur during 2012
身の回りに起こる
to occur in one's vicinity
まさかこんなことが起こるなんて、思ってもみなかったよ。
I never expected something like this would happen.
今起こったことについて、落ち着いてよく考えてみてください。
Please calm down and think carefully about what's taken place.
「ねぇ、僕にキスしたい？」「ありえない。100万年経ってもあんたとキスなんて絶対にしたくないから。天地がひっくり返っても、起こりっこないよ。」
"Hey, do you want to kiss me?" "Absolutely no way would I ever want to kiss you in a million years. That would never happen even if heaven and earth were turned upside down."