Уменка
Perfectivenachatsya

начаться

begin, start (intransitive)

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
начинатьсяbegin, start, set in
Conjugation
—
Class
Stress
Irregular
Aspect partner
начинаться

Future tense#

Reflexive Verbs
  • яI—
  • тыyou (sg)—
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itначнётся
  • мыwe—
  • выyou (pl)—
  • ониtheyначнутся

Perfective verbs form a simple future that takes present-tense endings but describes a completed action.

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheначался
  • онаsheначалась
  • оноitначалось
  • ониtheyначались

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

—

to a group / formal

—

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastначавшийся
  • Adverbial (past)начавшись

Used with#

  • + instr; с + gen

    + instr; с + gen

Examples#

  • Концерт начнётся в восемь.

    The concert will start at eight.

  • Урок начался с переклички.

    The lesson began with a roll call.

About this verb#

  • Reflexive perfective of начать, used for events and processes that 'begin themselves'. Only the third-person forms are in real use because subjects are events, not people. Past tense pulls stress onto -ся in the masculine (начался), while feminine and plural keep the ending stressed (началась, начались). С + genitive marks what the beginning consists in.

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