No. 102 in Czech
začátku
"Začátku" means "beginning" or "start" in English.
In a sentence
Na začátku jsem měl trochu strach.
At the beginning, I was a bit afraid.
'Začátku' in this sentence refers to the starting point of an event or situation, which is marked by 'Na' (at).
Zpočátku se mi práce zdála jednoduchá, ale později se ztížila.
Initially, the work seemed simple to me, but later it became more difficult.
Here 'Zpočátku' ('at the start') shares a similar root with 'začátku', and it refers to the early phase of an action or state.
Musíme to probrat od začátku.
We need to discuss it from the beginning.
'Začátku' here is part of the phrase 'od začátku', meaning 'from the beginning,' and indicates the starting phase of a process.
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