發生了甚麼事？

What is happening?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 發生 fāshēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
=2 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=2 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=2 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=2 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
=3 甚 shén variant of 什 shén
=3 甚 shèn
  1. excessive; undue
  2. to exceed; to be more than
  3. very; extremely
  4. (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. shén)
=4 麼 má exclamatory final particle
=4 麼 ma interrogative final particle
=4 麼 me suffix, used to form interrogative 什么 shénme, what?, indefinite 这么 zhème thus, etc
=4 麼 mó
  1. tiny
  2. insignificant
=5 事 shì
  1. matter
  2. thing
  3. item
  4. work
  5. affair

classifiers: 件, 樁, 回
=5 事 zì
  1. alternative form of 倳 (zì, “to establish”)
  2. alternative form of 剚 (zì, “to stab”)