begin
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- //bɪˈɡɪn//
- //bəˈɡɪn//
- //biˈɡɪn//
To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
verbo
- 1
To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
I began playing the piano at the age of five.
Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.
The program begins at 9 o’clock on the dot.
I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had already begun.
- 2
To come into existence.
Vast chain of being! which from God began.
Etimologia
From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan (“to begin”), from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), from be- + base verb *ginnaną also found in Old English onginnan.
sostantivo
- 1
Beginning; start.
In prayer, in the light, I see my kin / I touch my tree, my roots, my begin
Forme
- plurale
- begins
- passato
- began
- participio passato
- begun
- participio presente
- beginning
- 3ª persona singolare
- begins
begin · To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
beginner · Someone who is just starting at something, or has only…beginning · The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of…begun · Having began.