begin

/bɪˈɡɪn/

US pronunciation

American sound/bɪˈɡɪn/

bɪˈɡɪn

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

bɪ - ˈɡɪn -> begin

Myanmar meaning

(v) စတင်သည်။ စသည်။ (ခံစားမှု၊ အတွေးအသိ၊ အမှုအလုပ် စတင်ကြောင်းညွှန်ပြရာ၌ သုံးသည်။) (အရာဝတ္ထုတစ်ခု၏ဖြစ်စဉ် စတင်ကြောင်းပြရာ၌ သုံးသည်။) ပထမဦးဆုံးစတင်သည်။ (ငြင်းပယ်ဝါကျ များတွင် သုံးလေ့ရှိသည်။) စတင်ရန် အားထုတ်သည်။

Full entry

begin /bÇ'gÇn/ v (-nn-; pt began /bÇ'gæn/; pp begun /bÇ'gʌn/)

၁။ (က) စတင်သည်။ begin work/a meeting ❍ The building hasn't even been begun. ❍ I began school (ie attended it for the first time) when I was five. ❍ He has begun (on) (ie started reading or writing) a new book. ❍ Let's begin at (ie start from) page 9. ❍ He began (his talk) with an apology. ❍ She began by telling us a story. (ခ) စသည်။ When does the concert begin? ❍ The meeting will begin at nine. ❍ Building began last year. ❍ The new fare will be £1, beginning (from) next month. (ဂ) စခဲ့သည်။ He began as an actor (before starting to direct films). ❍ What began as a minor scuffle turned into a full-scale riot.
၂။ (က) (ခံစားမှု၊ အတွေးအသိ၊ အမှုအလုပ် စတင်ကြောင်းညွှန်ပြရာ၌ သုံးသည်။ ) She began to feel dizzy. ❍ I'm beginning to understand. ❍ I was beginning to think you'd never come. ❍ He began to get dressed. ❍ Everyone began talking at once. (ခ) (အရာဝတ္ထုတစ်ခု၏ဖြစ်စဉ် စတင်ကြောင်းပြရာ၌ သုံးသည်။ ) The paper was beginning to peel off the walls. ❍ The water is beginning to boil. ❍ It began to snow/began snowing. ❍ The train has begun to slow/begun slowing down.
၃။ ပထမဦးဆုံးစတင်သည်။ The school began in 1920, with only 10 pupils. ❍ He began a new magazine on post-war architecture.
၄။ အစချီသည်။ (နေရာက) စတင်သည်။ The English alphabet begins with ‘A’ and ends with ‘Z’. ❍ Where does Asia begin and Europe end?
၅။ စ (လုပ်)သည်။ စ(ပြော)သည်။ Shall I begin? ❍ ‘I'm sorry,’she began.
၆။ (infml ) (ငြင်းပယ်ဝါကျ များတွင် သုံးလေ့ရှိသည်။ ) စတင်ရန် အားထုတ်သည်။ The authorities couldn't even begin to assess the damage (ie because it was so great). ❍ I can't begin (ie I don't know how) to thank you enough. ❍ He didn't even begin to understand my problem.
❏ beginner n လက်သင်။ အစိမ်း။ ဝါနု။ a beginner's course.
❏ beginner's luck [IDM ] စစချင်းကံကောင်းမှု။
❏ beginning n
၁။ (က) အစ။ Recite the poem (right) from the (very) beginning. ❍ I've read the book from beginning to end. ❍ Monday morning—the beginning of a new week. (ခ) ပထမပိုင်း။ အစပိုင်း။ I missed the beginning of the film. ❍ You've made a good beginning.
၂။ (often pl ) မူလ။ မြစ်ဖျား။ Did democracy have its beginnings in ancient Greece? ❍ Many big businesses start from small beginnings.
❏ the beginning of the end [IDM ] နိဂုံး၏အစ။ The upsurge of nationalism may prove to be the beginning of the end of/for Communism worldwide.
❏ to begin with [IDM ]
၁။ အစတုန်းကတော့။ To begin with he had no money, but later he became immensely rich. ❍ HOPEFUL
၂။ တစ် အချက်ကတော့။ နံပါတ်တစ်အနေနဲ့။ I'm not going. To begin with I don't have a ticket, and secondly I don't like the play.

More examples

She felt her life was just beginning.
The ceremony is due to begin at noon.
My troubles began the night I met Roger.
[begin as] : It began as a practical joke.
[begin with] : All meals begin with a short prayer.
The competition began with one of the teams being disqualified.
[begin with] : We usually use ‘an’ before a word beginning with a vowel.
The Lake District begins just north of Kendal.
‘It isn’t like that’, he began, but Ben interrupted him.
[begin doing something] : He began shouting abuse at them.
[begin to do something] : Suddenly the rain began to fall.
[be just beginning to do something] : The buds were just beginning to open.
[begin to do something] : Now we were beginning to feel excited.
I was beginning to wonder if I’d ever find you!
The police have already begun their investigation.
Their truck began the steep descent to the village.
[begin (something) by doing something] : I’d like to begin by thanking you all for coming.
[begin (something) with something] : We began the meeting with a discussion about the budget.
[begin (something) as something] : He began his working life as a waiter.
I began the book with high hopes.

Synonyms

start, start on, commence, start in on, set in motion, embark on, instigate, initiate, activate, create, open, launch, inaugurate, actualize, appear, arise, be born, break ground, break the ice, bring about, bring into being, bring to pass, bud, cause, come forth, come into being, come into existence, come out, crop up, dawn, derive from, do, drive, effect, emanate, emerge, enter, enter on, enter upon, establish, eventuate, found, generate, germinate, get down to, get going, get show on road, get to, get under way, get underway, give birth to, give impulse, go ahead, go into, grow out of, happen, impel, induce, institute, introduce, issue forth, kick off, lay foundation for, lead, make, make active, make tick, motivate, mount, occasion, occur, originate, plunge into, prepare, proceed from, produce, result from, rise, sail, send off, set, set about, set in train, set off, set up, spring, sprout, start off, start the ball rolling, stem from, take off, trigger, undertake

Antonyms

cease, check, close, complete, conclude, consummate, destroy, die, disappear, discourage, dissuade, end, expire, fail, finish, halt, hide, ignore, leave, lose, neglect, prevent, repress, ruin, shrink, stop