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[edit] English

Most common English words: circumstances « sitting « Christ « #788: begin » wait » laughed » opportunity

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From Old English beginnan, from a Proto-Germanic root apparently meaning ‘open up’; for the sense development, consider English open fire, opening ceremony, etc.

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Infinitive
to begin

Third person singular
begins

Simple past
began

Past participle
begun

Present participle
beginning

to begin (third-person singular simple present begins, present participle beginning, simple past began, past participle begun)

  1. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

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begin n. (no plural, diminutive beginnetje, diminutive plural beginnetjes)

  1. start, beginning

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begin

  1. First-person singular present of beginnen: start, begin.
  2. Imperative of beginnen: start, begin.

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begin

  1. beginning

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