Meanings
Verb (1-dan, intransitive)
1. to get up; to rise; to blaze up (fire)
2. to wake up; to be awake; to stay awake
3. to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen; to take place
Kanji used
to occur
Pitch accent
Top 400
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
to jump up to one's feet
to jump up; to spring up
Examples (200 in total)
It happened in Rome.
Get up as early as you can.
It's too early to get up.
Everybody's still awake.
They still haven't woken up.
You remember what happened, right?
When do you wake up?
I got up early yesterday.
I don't know what happened.
What just happened in there?
Are you really awake?
That's not gonna happen.
Everything happened all at once.
I usually get up late.
Nothing really happened.
Didn't anything else happen?
Good morning. It's time to get up.
All the kids are awake.
Miracles are called miracles because they don't happen!
He got up in the morning.
We got up at dawn.
I hate it when this happens.
Get up as early as you possibly can.
I woke up really late.
Do you get up at six?
What time do you get up?
It's still too early to get up.
I'd just woken up and was still drowsy.
Tom is an early riser.
I've no idea what's happening.
I had an asthma attack.
What is happening in Ukraine?
It's about time you got up.
I had an angina attack.
The earthquake occurred at dawn.
You have to get up early.
What if nothing happens?
Of course, it didn't happen.
My mother gets up earlier than I.
I make it a rule to get up early.
He didn't realize what was happening.
It is time that you got up.
Tell me what happened.
At that time, I was still awake.
I wanted to get up earlier than Mother.
That is because I got up late.
I will probably get up early tomorrow.
I don't remember what happened anymore.
Should we get up earlier?
When I woke up, I was sad.
It is difficult to wake up on cold mornings.
I wonder if something interesting will happen.
I got up earlier than usual.
I got up very early today.
That never happens around here.
The noise will wake the baby up.
If you aren't quiet, the baby will wake up.
Do you have this symptom often?
A fire broke out in the supermarket last night.
On weekends, I get up later than usual.
"When do you get up?" "At 8 in the morning."
She got up at seven in the morning.
The fire broke out toward midnight.
This is how it all came about.
The accident occurred on Friday.
You must get up at six.
Don't wanna get up early to work hard.
All of a sudden, a fire broke out in the movie theater.
"When do you get up?" "I get up at eight."
You get up at 5 o'clock every morning.
Civil wars are occurring in many countries.
How did the traffic accident happen?
Get up early, or you'll be late.
Do earthquakes happen often in Australia?
A revolution has occurred in technology.
There is no telling what will happen in the near future.
What happens when you have an allergic reaction?
A dreadful accident happened on the corner.
It's good for your health to get up early in the morning.
I got up early as usual.
What happened next, I don't know.
Why are you up so late?
Is there anyone here who can explain what's happening?
I had a feeling something bad was about to happen.
Such a thing has never happened before.
We were aware of what was going on.
He will have to get up early tomorrow.
Why did you get up so early?
You have to wake up early tomorrow morning.
You must get up a little earlier.
I don't always get up early.
I'll always love you, no matter what happens.
My mother gets up early every morning.
When and where did the war break out?
I've already told the police what happened.
My brother always gets up earlier than I.
It happened a long time ago.
Who would've thought this would happen?
I'll stand by you whatever happens.
There is no telling what will happen tomorrow.
If you get up early, you can be in time for school.
You don't get up as early as your sister.
I find it hard to get up early on cold mornings.
I had to get up very early this morning.
It will be difficult for him to get up so early.
What's going on in that area right now?
It is dreadful that a nuclear crisis has hit Japan.
A conflict of opinions arose over the matter.
When I got up this morning, I had a headache.
There will be a big earthquake in the future.
They always wake up early, even on Sundays.
I got up an hour earlier than usual this morning.
I stayed up until 2:30 a.m.
If you get up early tomorrow, you can see the rising sun.
Old people get up very early.
John is in the habit of staying up until midnight.
You'll have to get up early tomorrow morning.
Why do you blame me for what happened?
The intersection where the accident happened is near here.
You shouldn't stay up so late at night.
As is often the case with him, he sits up late at night.
I finally found out what happened.
You'd better get up, it's already 11 AM!
The accident happened because of the driver's negligence.
You will have to get up at six tomorrow morning.
My sister Susan gets up early every morning.
I got up early this morning to go fishing.
All humanity will suffer if a nuclear war breaks out.
How did the car accident come about?
Do you think I don't know what's going on?
If anything happens, please let me know.
I just don't feel like going to school today.
You don't have to get up so early.
I want to go to sleep soon because I need to get up early tomorrow.
He has not come yet. Something may have happened to him.
Mother gets up earlier than anybody else in my family.
It won't happen again, I promise.
We were astonished to hear what had happened.
No matter what happens, I am prepared.
The explosion that followed killed many people.
There is no knowing what will happen next.
I hope that will not happen again.
When I got up, it was snowing outside.
"If there is an accident," he says, "they will know right away."
When the sisters came back, their mother was still awake.
See to it that this never happens again.
No matter what may come, I will do my duty.
What do you think happened to our family?
He got up early so as to be in time for the train.
When and how did the incident come about?
There's a strong probability of a nuclear tragedy.
He got up early in order to attend the meeting.
Something might have happened to her.
Every morning she gets up early because she has to cook.
He accurately described what happened there.
We went to bed early in order to get up at dawn.
No matter how late you may stay up, get up by seven in the morning.
Tom had no way of knowing that this would happen.
We got up early so that we could see the sunrise.
Rosie was allowed to stay up till eleven o'clock.
I awoke this morning to find the summit of the mountain covered with snow.
Most car accidents occur due to the inattention of the driver.
If you can't wake up in the morning, you should go to bed earlier.
She acted as if she didn't care what happened.
It happened just like this.
When the phone rang, he sprang out of bed.
I sat up until three a.m. waiting for you!
The children were allowed to stay up till 10 p.m.
My brother and sister get up about seven-thirty every morning.
When Peter got up, Jean had already left home.
Tanaka has said that he got up this morning around eight o'clock.
As always, he got up early in the morning and went jogging.
Tom tried to stay awake, but he soon fell asleep.
Tom and Mary woke up early to see the first sunrise of the year.
I don't quite know how it happened.
My father had already finished breakfast when I got up this morning.
According to some scholars, a major earthquake could occur at any moment now.
I got up early the next morning to catch the first train.
Today, I was supposed to study at the library but I woke up around 12 o'clock.
The police established where he was when the crime occurred.
The farmer rose at sunrise and worked till sunset.
Mary is staying up late this week to prepare for her finals.
I would sooner die than get up early every morning.
They are anticipating trouble when the construction starts.
I got up earlier than usual, so I could catch the first train.
She stayed up late to finish sewing your dress.
His failure to tell me the truth caused an accident.
The French Revolution began in 1789.
Are you sure you don't remember what happened?
Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning.
We got up at four in the morning.
His mother sat up all night waiting for her son.
Do you remember the earthquake that struck Armenia in 1988?
"How late did you stay up last night?" "I was up until about 2:30."
I depend on the alarm clock to wake up on time every morning.
I woke up 5 minutes ago. I need coffee before I can start working.
How often do you stay up past 1:00am?
The first minutes after a heart attack are very important.
There were demonstrations against the government by Japanese university students in the 1960's.
On the 11th of March 2011, an unprecedented accident took place in Fukushima.