Illustration: In a neighborhood community hall, the stage curtains have just parted enough to reveal a children's puppet performance beginning. One puppet rises above the little stage while a second is only halfway up, caught in its entrance.

JLPT N5verbLevel estimated by Bebop

始はじまる

hajimaru

to begin, to start

Example sentences

  1. その試合しあいは何時なんじに始はじまりますか。

    What time does the game start?

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  2. 映画えいがが始はじまります。

    The movie starts.

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  3. 何時なんじに始はじまるの？

    What time does it start?

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Kanji in 始

  • 始commence; beginOnシKunはじめる・はじまる

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