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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

始まる

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hajimaru

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Commence/kəˈmɛns/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"式典が間もなく始まります。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To begin or start.

    "The ceremony will commence at ten o'clock."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'commencen', which came from Old French 'commencier', ultimately stemming from Late Latin 'cominitiare' (to begin, to initiate). The root combines the intensive prefix 'com-' with 'initiare' (to begin).

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