This is the 11145th most frequent Spanish word.
empecé
"I started."
Empecé in this sentence conveys the initiation of an action following a specific event in the past.
Después del almuerzo, empecé a trabajar en el proyecto.
After lunch, I began working on the project.
Empecé is the first-person preterite tense of 'empezar', indicating a completed action in the past.
Hoy empecé a aprender un nuevo idioma.
Today I started learning a new language.
Empecé illustrates habitual past action when combined with temporal expressions.