começar
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- commeçar (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Portuguese começar, *comẽeçar, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiō, *cominitiāre, from com- + Latin initiāre, present active infinitive of initiō.
Related to Catalan començar, French commencer, Galician comezar, Italian cominciare, Romansch cumanzar, Spanish comenzar.
Pronunciation
Verb
começar (first-person singular present indicative começo, past participle começado)
- (intransitive) to start; to begin; to commence
- Fique quieto, o filme já vai começar!
- Keep quiet, the movie is going to start soon!
- (transitive) to begin; to start to do
- Vou começar a lição de inglês falando sobre verbos irregulares.
- I will start the English lesson talking about irregular verbs.
- (transitive) to start; to initiate (to cause something to begin)
- Aperte play para começar o vídeo.
- Press play to start the video.
- O acontecimento começou um debate sobre o crime.
- The occurrence started a debate about crime.
- (auxiliary with a or por (less common) and a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to begin [to]
- Um pirralho começou a gritar.
- A brat began to scream / began screaming.
- (intransitive) to begin (to have a first experience)
- Não sei cozinhar ainda, mas comecei com alguns pratos simples.
- I don't know how to cook yet, but I started with some simple foods.
- first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of começar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of começar
- first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of começar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of começar
Conjugation
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb começar
Quotations
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:começar.
Synonyms
- (to begin, intransitive): iniciar, principiar
- (to begin, transitive): iniciar, principiar
- (to initiate): iniciar, inicializar
- (to begin, auxiliary): principiar
- (to have a first experience): principiar
Antonyms
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