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begin Verb

— When you begin something, you start to do the first part of a longer action. A journey always begins with a first step. You can not get to the end of any job before you begin. He began to read the book at the first page.

begin

— verb (= get down, get, start) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action We began working at dawn Who will start? Get working as soon as the sun rises! The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia He began early in the day Let's get down to work now — verb (= start) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense The DMZ begins right over the hill The second movement begins after the Allegro Prices for these homes start at $250,000 — verb (= start) set in motion, cause to start The U.S. started a war in the Middle East The Iraqis began hostilities begin a new chapter in your life — verb begin to speak or say; he began Now listen, friends, — verb begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language She began Russian at an early age We started French in fourth grade — verb achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war — verb have a beginning characterized in some specified way The novel begins with a murder My property begins with the three maple trees Her day begins with a workout The semester begins with a convocation ceremony — verb have a beginning, of a temporal event WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland The company's Asia tour begins next month — verb (= start) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object begin a cigar She started the soup while it was still hot We started physics in 10th grade — verb be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series The number 'one' begins the sequence A terrible murder begins the novel The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester

Begin

— noun Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)

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Menachem Begin

Topics begin topics

What do people use begin to talk about?
States Time Aspectual time

Start something
States Time Aspectual time Start something

Beginning
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Tense and aspect

Aspect--dynamic verbs
Person Body functions

Sweat
Social behavior Relationships

Begin a relationship
States Time Relative time Order, sequence

First
Grammar Connected with, related Coordinate relations

And, also

Conjugation begin conjugation

How do you conjugate begin?

begin · verb

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Simple sentences

Once you begin, you must continue.
Leaves begin to fall in October.
Fairy tales always begin the same: once upon a time.
The show will begin soon.
OK, I think we can begin.
When do the Christmas holidays begin?
You can't even begin to compare with Tom.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Class doesn't begin until eight-thirty.
When did you begin studying English?
When did you begin learning German?
The weather will soon begin to calm down.
What time does school begin?
What shall I begin with?
When did it begin to rain?
Begin with such books as you can easily understand.
You had better begin with easier questions.
From the look of the sky, it may begin to snow tonight.
What time does the play begin?
We were impatient for the concert to begin.

Movie subtitles

Begin the attack!
Tomorrow, your missions begin.
Things can flow around, begin to form bonds.
Actually, I never wanted to be there to begin with.
So now I can go with Greg and we can have a moment and share our feelings and our relationship can begin.
I'm so excited that our love story can finally begin.
We all meet back in the dining room at midnight, where the accusations begin.
So, we'll start Susan off on short legs like Glyn's to begin with.
And then something new will begin.
Well, let us begin.
The service should begin, but the pastor is not here.
So the stones begin to speak.
It's possible to begin work immediately.
Let the triple battle begin, King Gunther!
Let us begin.
I can't even begin to guess how it was made, but this thing serves as some sort of antenna for receiving thought-waves from The Blessed and apparently can control machines.
I can't begin to thank you for saving me. all of you, even though I was the one who dragged you into this.
Understand? They weren't ours to begin with.
Once the station is replenished, it will change course and begin dropping atmospheric reentry capsules loaded with micro-drones toward the Earth below.
As to what you mean by a heart, I never really had one to begin with.
I begin to realize, terribly clearly.
Whenever I get more than three or four families within a hundred mile of me, I begin to feel kind of crowded.
Does the attack begin on the ninth?
Begin life anew.
I know, but you should throw me out, because I begin to get goofy ideas, and they concern you, Anne.
Let us begin at the beginning.
Now we're going to begin at the beginning again.
I'm begin to suspect you have.
Starting on Wednesday, the forum in Jeju for peace on the Peninsula will begin. Although it is not necessary for you to go to Jeju personally, but there's a Royal Family dinner.
Dinner will begin in 30 minutes.
Before you begin filming, I'll treat you to a delicious cake.
SHALL WE BEGIN?
It's about to begin.
When a big party ends, small parties begin.
Now, where should we begin?
Destruction is about to begin.

News and current affairs

If Iran did this, it would not only add to the dangers in an unstable region, but would likely begin a process of unravelling the non-proliferation regime worldwide.
That boost in assets will, in turn, enable local credit markets, such as micro-finance, to begin operating.
Not only do these farmers then feed their families, but they also can begin to earn market income and to save for the future.
In late May, the international community will have a chance to begin implementing these ideas at the WHO World Health Assembly - a moment of hope for public health around the world.
And to understand how something works is also to begin to see ways to modify and even control it.
It is not as if people would suddenly begin to behave better if we just gave them more facts and statistics, or better arguments.
But it is better to begin the ethical discussion too early than too late.
They must begin to come to terms with the crimes committed against others - in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.
Unfortunately, conditions across the Union will likely worsen before they begin to improve.
Europe's stock markets will begin to look like an attractive alternative.
In recent days, Italy's government fell after losing a parliamentary vote on the country's troop deployment in Afghanistan, while Britain and Denmark announced that they are to begin withdrawing their troops from Iraq.
Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir belonged to that category.
Yet anyone who would like to predict Sharon's future behavior should remember that unlike Begin and Shamir, Sharon comes from the military, and for him security - not ideology - is supreme.
Only when the annual rains begin in the summer does water reappear in the river bed.
What, then, will a future risk assessment look like if significantly less organized and developed countries begin - with the active assistance of the nuclear powers - to acquire civilian nuclear-energy capabilities?
Indeed, one positive achievement by European leaders at the recent Brussels summit was to begin the process of reining in both the ECB and the power of the American ratings agencies.
Even more policy coordination will be needed both to confront the crisis and to re-establish EU norms once the storm clouds begin to dissipate.
The task of remedying it must begin at the meeting on climate change that will be held in Copenhagen in December.
But we can nonetheless begin to assess its potential spillover effects on the rest of Asia and other major economies around the world.
Let me suggest five steps necessary to begin to bring this about.

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