Evento, hecho, sucedo y acontecimiento!

Question

Hola!

All of these words can be translated as "event", according to the SD dictionary: Evento, hecho, sucedo y acontecimiento.

If anyone could explain the difference between these, it would be very much appreciated.

Here are my own guesses as to what these mean, based partially on the example sentences in the SD dictionary:

• evento - a thing you go to, such as a social or sporting event
• hecho - a general thing that happened in the past
• sucedo - a crime or accident event
• acontecimiento - an impressive social event

But these are just guesses really, so any clarification would be very useful.

Muchas gracias! Rangi

Answer 1

I start telling you that is not sucedo, it is suceso.

Four words means the same more or less. Probably, I don't use four words as synonyns, but you can find them in many text and sentences used as that.

Evento, as you said, is used to refer to a social event or party.

Acontecimiento is also used in important social events (weddings, final football match, etc..). An "evento" synonym totally.

Hecho also can be used as fact

Suceso it is commonly used in the newspapers, when they "talk" about a small crime. Many years ago, in some newspapers you could find the section "Sucesos", where you could read about the small crimes and deaths happened during the related week.

Thank you very much for the detailed answer, that is really useful and helpful. Gracias! - Rangi, Sep 14, 2015

Gracias! - jrschenk, Sep 14, 2015

Thanks, amigo. Good to see you. :) - rac1, Sep 14, 2015

Me too Rac, too much work and too much xbox ;) - txustaboy, Sep 14, 2015

Just want to add: hecho enJapon, for example, made in Japan, no matter what, not an event, a thing, a product. - annierats, Sep 14, 2015

@Annie: In English we call them "homonyms" words that are the same but have different meanings. The word "spring" has four distinct and different meanings in English. - Daniela2041, Sep 14, 2015