begun

English

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Verb

begun

  1. past participle of begin
    • 1807, Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.), The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641. 3 vols. [each in 2 pt.]., page 717
      ... when he should take the sield, that city was persuaded to complete the regiment they had begun to form, under the command of a Colonel whom the King had recommended to them ; which they did raise to the number of a thousand men.
  2. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense of begin [17th-20th c.]
    1790 (see Amazing Grace)
    When we've been there ten thousand years,
    Bright shining as the sun,
    We've no less days to sing God's praise,
    Than when we first begun.

Volapük

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [beˈɡun]

Noun

begun (plural beguns)

  1. begonia

Declension
declension of begun
singular plural
nominative begun beguns
genitive beguna begunas
dative begune begunes
accusative beguni begunis
vocative 1 o begun! o beguns!
predicative 2 begunu begunus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only
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