begun

See also: Begun

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈɡʌn/

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• Rhymes: -ʌn

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 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 (nominative 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 later, non-classical Volapük only