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begannest

begannest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of begin.

Meaning of begin

Verb

begin (third-person singular simple present begins, present participle beginning, simple past began, past participle begun)

  1. (ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
    • I began playing the piano at the age of five.
  2. (intransitive) To come into existence.
    • Vast chain of being! which from God began.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC

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Forms of begannest

alternative formbeganst

Origin of begannest

began + -est

Questions about begannest

What is begannest the second-person singular simple past indicative of?
Begannest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of begin.

Words near begannest in the dictionary

  1. beganest
  2. Begang
  3. beganna
  4. begannas
  5. beganne
  6. begannest
  7. Beganovic
  8. Beganovics
  9. beganst
  10. begar
  11. begarlanded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: begannest (page history and authors); begin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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