Translation
to begin; to start
Examples
!
Let us begin!
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He began to speak.
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The day is beginning.
?
When will the work begin?
komencon finon.
Everything has a beginning and an end.
needs an object or an infinitive: somebody begins something. When the thing starts by itself you want , so , because the day is not beginning anything. Writing is the single commonest error with this verb, and it is the same mistake as . The noun and the adverb komence, at first, follow the usual pattern.
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