begin /bi'gin/

Meaning

English definition

• (n.) Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt)…
• (v.) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
• (v.) set in motion, cause to start

Chinese translation

• v. 开始
• [计] 开始

Word details

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

/bi'gin/

Syllables

2

Exam levels

Middle-school · Gaokao

Frequency

Zipf 4.84 · Common

Word forms

began, beginning, begun, begins

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beginning · beginner · beginners

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