different between began vs bega

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA^(key): /b???æn/
• (General American, US) IPA^(key): /b???æn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: be?gan

Verb

began

1. simple past tense of begin
2. (obsolete) past participle of begin

Derived terms

• beganst

Anagrams

• Bange, abeng, benga

Middle Dutch

Verb

began

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of beginnen

Old English

Etymology

From be- +? g?n. Cognate with Old High German big?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be????n/

Verb

beg?n

1. to bego, go over, traverse; get to, come by, fall into
2. to go to, visit, care for, cultivate, affect

3. to occupy, inhabit, dwell, surround, besiege, overrun

4. to practise, do, engage in, perform, commit, exercise, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess; pledge, devote, train oneself

Conjugation

Derived terms

• forebeg?n
• misbeg?n
• unbeg?n

Descendants

• Middle English: bigon, begon
  • English: bego

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “beg?n”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “beg?n”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

English

Noun

bega (plural begas)

1. Alternative form of bigha

Anagrams

• Gabe, beag

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bega

1. first-person singular present indicative of begaan
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of begaan
3. imperative of begaan

Italian

Etymology

From Gothic *???????????????? (*b?ga, “quarrel”), ultimately from the root of Proto-Germanic *b?gan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.?a/, /?be.?a/
• Rhymes: -??a, -e?a
• Hyphenation: bè?ga, bé?ga

Noun

bega f (plural beghe)

1. quarrel, dispute
2. (by extension) A troubled situation.

Derived terms

• begare

References

• bega in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• begav

Verb

bega

1. simple past of begi

Phuthi

Verb

-bega

1. to cut into strips (meat for cooking)

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Slovene

Noun

béga

1. inflection of b??g:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

bega (ma class, plural mabega)

1. shoulder