No. 2,188 in Catalan
comencés
"Comencés" is the third-person singular (he/she/it) or first-person singular (I) imperfect subjunctive form of "començar," meaning "were to begin" or "started."
In a sentence
Sabia que si comencés el projecte ara, el podria acabar a temps.
I knew that if I started the project now, I could finish it on time.
The word 'comencés' is in the imperfect subjunctive form and is used here to express a hypothetical situation.
És important que ell comencés a preparar-se per a l'examen.
It's important that he started preparing for the exam.
Here, 'comencés' is the imperfect subjunctive form, indicative of a subordinate clause expressing necessity with a past-time perspective.
Tot hauria anat millor si comencés més d'hora.
Everything would have gone better if it had started earlier.
In this sentence, 'comencés' is also in the imperfect subjunctive form, being part of a conditional clause describing an unreal past situation.
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