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empecé

B1Rank #2194

I began (preterite form of empezar)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#2194 of 5,000

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"empecé" in example sentences

"empecé" appears in 64 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Empecé a vivir solo.

I began living by myself.

Tatoeba #759998

Empecé a beber cerveza.

I began drinking beer.

Tatoeba #5723728

Empecé a bailar.

I began to dance.

Tatoeba #14016566

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "empecé"

Each of these shares at least three of those Tatoeba sentences with "empecé"; the number is how many.

aprender11años13tocar4seis4ganar3llorar3

Related words

empezar - all tensesverb tableempezarbase formempiezaempezóempezandoempezamosempezado

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