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začať

  • to begin
  • to start
Verbs #13 Verbs

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Usage

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Začať starts an action. Prestať stops it — same infinitive for a clean contrast.

Examples

In a sentence

začať — begin

  • Začnem čítať.

    I'll start reading.

prestať — stop (see prestať)

  • Prestanem čítať.

    I'll stop reading.

Source

Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗

English gloss from the frequency publish path. Hand-reviewed example sentences.

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