Etymology

que sera sera

Today it means: "whatever happens, happens", "whatever will be, will be". Ostensibly employed to express a personal philosophy of fatalism and acceptance of the future. Full definition →

Italian quel che sarà, sarà
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The story

  1. Italian · borrowed fromquel che sarà, sarà“what will be, will be”
  2. English todayque sera sera

An ungrammatical hispanicization of the artificial Italian language phrase "che sara sara", from standard Italian quel che sarà, sarà (“what will be, will be”), coined by American composers Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for use as the title to their 1956 song “Que Sera, Sera” (as such, this phrase represents an artifice based upon an artifice).

Words from the same roots

Italianquel che sarà, sarà all →

che sara sara

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.