happy

Significado

Adj

1. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
3. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
4. Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
5. Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
6. Favoring or inclined to use.
7. Dexterous, ready, skilful.
8. Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.

Noun

A happy event, thing, person, etc.

Verb

1. (informal) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
2. (informal) Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Con guión como

hap‧py

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈhæpi/

Etimología

From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.

Oraciones

They would be happy and we would be happy .

Serían felices y seríamos felices.

Just the way yours do when you're happy .

Tal como lo hacen el tuyo cuando eres feliz.