No. 11,145 in Spanish
empecé
"I started."
In a sentence
Hoy empecé a aprender un nuevo idioma.
Today I started learning a new language.
Empecé is the first-person preterite tense of 'empezar', indicating a completed action in the past.
Después del almuerzo, empecé a trabajar en el proyecto.
After lunch, I began working on the project.
Empecé in this sentence conveys the initiation of an action following a specific event in the past.
Cuando era niño, siempre empecé los deberes después de jugar.
When I was a child, I always started the homework after playing.
Empecé illustrates habitual past action when combined with temporal expressions.
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