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㊦ 始める・はじめる

Auxiliary Verb (Group 2)


Someone/something begins to do something or begins to be in some state. Begin to
【Related Expression: ~出す; 来る2
【Antonym Expression: ~終わる

Key Sentences

(ks). 明日からレポートを書き始める・始めます

I'll begin to write my paper tomorrow.


Formation

Vます はじめる  
話しはじめる Someone begins to talk
食べはじめる Someone begins to eat

Examples

(a). 私は八月から源氏物語を読み始めました

I began to read The Tale of Genji in August.

(b). 日本の経済は1964年の東京オリンピックのころから強くなり始めた

The Japanese economy began to strengthen about the time of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

(c). A:いつから切手を集め始めたんですか。  B:子供の時から集め始めました

A: When did you start to collect stamps?  B: I started to collect them (literally: since) I was a child.


Notes

1. Verbます始める conjugates exactly like the Group 2 Verb 始める.


ない informal, negative, nonpast
ます formal, nonpast
話しはじめ informal, nonpast
食べはじめ れば conditional
よう volitional
て form
informal, past

2. For the sentence (1) below, there are two honorific versions, depending on which part of Verbます始める is changed into an honorific form; if the Verbます is changed into an honorific form, it will become (2a) and if the entire Verbます始める is changed into an honorific form, it will become (2b).

(⇨ お~になる)

3. 始める is normally attached to a non punctual verb (such as 読む 'read', 書く 'write' and 見る 'see'). If the subject is plural, however, the verb can be a punctual verb (such as 着く 'arrive', 来る 'come' and 死ぬ 'die'). Thus,


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