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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishbeginnen, fromOld Englishbeginnan(“to begin”), fromProto-West Germanic*biginnan, fromProto-Germanic*biginnaną(“to begin”), frombe- + base verb*ginnaną also found inOld Englishonginnan.

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begin (third-person singular simple presentbegins,present participlebegining,simple pastbegan,past participlebegun)

  1. (ambitransitive) Tostart, toinitiate or take thefirst step into something.
    Ibegan playing the piano at the age of five.
    Now that everyone is here, we shouldbegin the presentation.
    • a.1705, John Locke, “An Examination of P[ère]Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God”, inPosthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published1706,→OCLC, paragraph 41,page175:
      The Apoſtlebegins our Knowledge in the Creatures, which lead us to the Knowledge of God, if we will make uſe of our Reaſon: [...]
    • 1712 (date written),Alexander Pope, “Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation ofVirgil’sPollio.”, inThe Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton, H. Lintot,J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, and S. Draper, published1751,→OCLC,page37, lines1–2:
      Ye Nymphs of Solyma!begin the ſong: / To heav'nly themes ſublimer ſtrains belong.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC,page48:
      Mr. Cooke at oncebegan a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.[…] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases youbegin to get queer, I suppose.
    • 2007, Nicky Gregson,Living with Things: Ridding, Accommodation, Dwelling, page48:
      As Andrew, in particular,began to work on renovation and improvement, his talk about thisbegan to be peppered with references to 'bodgery' — 'When I look at it, all I see is bodgery, he says recurrently, with a mixture of exclamation and despair.
    • 2008 April 9, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, “Harnessing Biology, and Avoiding Oil, for Chemical Goods”, inThe New York Times‎[1]:
      Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill hasbegun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.
    • 2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen,Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper,→ISBN:
      Statebegins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.
    • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8842, page29:
      Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia firstbegan to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
  2. (intransitive) To be in the firststage of somesituation
    The programbegins at 9 o’clock on the dot.
    I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had alreadybegun.
  3. (intransitive) Tocome intoexistence.

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Translations

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to start, to initiate or take the first step into something
of a thing, to be in the first stage of something

Noun

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begin (pluralbegins)

  1. (nonstandard)Beginning;start.
    • 2006, Quynh Anh, “Hello Vietnam”, inBonjour Vietnam, published2008:
      In prayer, in the light, I see my kin / I touch my tree, my roots, mybegin

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Dutchbegin, fromOld Dutch*bigin, fromProto-West Germanic[Term?], from the verb*biginnan(“to begin”) (whencebeginnen). Cognate withOld High Germanbigin andOld Frisianbiginn. Compare with different prefixOld Dutchanagen,anagenni(“beginning”).

Noun

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begin n (uncountable,diminutivebeginnetje n)

  1. start,beginning
    Synonyms:aanvang,start
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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begin

  1. inflection ofbeginnen:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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FromOld Dutch*bigin, fromProto-West Germanic[Term?], from the verb*biginnan(“to begin”). Cognate withOld High Germanbigin,Old Frisianbiginn.

Noun

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begin n

  1. beginning,start
  2. origin,source

Declension

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This noun needs aninflection-table template.

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Volapük

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Noun

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begin (nominative pluralbegins)

  1. beginning

Declension

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Declension ofbegin
singularplural
nominativebeginbegins
genitivebeginabeginas
dativebeginebegines
accusativebeginibeginis
vocative1obegin!obegins!
predicative2beginubeginus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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