begin
/bɪˈɡɪn/ verb A1- 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.
- To come into existence.
Plural begin · He/she/it begins · Past began · Past participle begun · -ing form beginning
Verb forms
- Base form
- begin
- He/she/it
- begins
- Past
- began
- Past participle
- begun
- -ing form
- beginning
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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Dorothy began to sob at this, for she felt lonely among all these strange people.
Her tears seemed to grieve the kind-hearted Munchkins, for they immediately took out their handkerchiefs and began to weep also.
When we got into the train at Charlottetown and the red roads began to flash past I asked Mrs.
“What is it?” asked the little old woman, and looked, and began to laugh.
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