Imperfect il/elle conjugation of happer.

happer

Quand j'avais sept ou huit ans et que mon frère avait quatre ou cinq ans, je suis tombée dans l'océan et l'eau me happait la tête la première.
When I was seven or eight and my brother was four or five years old, I fell down in the ocean and the water was actually dragging me in headfirst.
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