beginnen

From Middle Dutch beginnen, from Old Dutch biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną.

• IPA^(key): /bəˈɣɪnə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: be‧gin‧nen
• Rhymes: -ɪnən

beginnen

1. (ergative) to begin

• starten

• stoppen

• beginnen
• beginsel

• Afrikaans: begin

From Middle High German beginnen, from Old High German biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną. Cognate with Low German beginnen, Dutch beginnen, West Frisian begjinne, and English begin.

• IPA^(key): /bəˈɡɪnən/, [bəˈɡɪnən], [bəˈɡɪnn̩]

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beginnen (class 3 strong, third-person singular simple present beginnt, past tense begann, past participle begonnen, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to begin; to commence; to be started

   Der Vortrag hat begonnen. — “The lecture has begun.”

2. (chiefly literary, transitive or with mit) to start something; to begin something

   Er hat den Vortrag begonnen. — “He has started the lecture.”

   Er hat mit dem Vortrag begonnen. — “He has started the lecture.”

• Beginnen is relatively rare in colloquial German and is most often replaced with anfangen. This is particularly true of the sense “to start something”.
• In literary German, beginnen is often preferred to anfangen, though both are perfectly acceptable.

• Beginnen
• Beginner
• Beginn
• beginnend
• begonnen

• beenden

• beginnen in Duden online

From Old Dutch biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną.

beginnen

1. to begin, to start
2. to arise, to originate

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• beginninge
• beginsel

• Dutch: beginnen
• Limburgish: beginne

• “beghinnen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “beginnen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old High German biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną. Cognate with English begin and Dutch beginnen.

beginnen

1. to begin

• German: beginnen