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empezó

A2Rank #1199

he/she/it began (preterite form of empezar)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#1199 of 5,000

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"empezó" in example sentences

"empezó" appears in 257 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

La guerra empezó tres años más tarde.

The war began three years later.

Tatoeba #1069916

Él empezó a buscar un trabajo.

He began to look for a job.

Tatoeba #671993

Nadie recuerda cómo empezó todo.

No one remembers how it all began.

Tatoeba #10060859

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "empezó"

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

llorar15repente8habíamos3gritar3cogió4cantar6

Related words

empezar - all tensesverb tableempezarbase formempiezaempezandoempezamosempecéempezado

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