begaan

== Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bəˈɣaːn/ Hyphenation: be‧gaan Rhymes: -aːn === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch begaen. Equivalent to be- +‎ gaan. ==== Verb ==== begaan (transitive) to walk upon, to tread on Vanaf morgen kunnen ze de steigers begaan. ― They will be able to walk on the piers from tomorrow on. (transitive, by extension) to move upon, to travel on De wegen hier zijn erg moeilijk te begaan. ― The roads over here are very difficult to travel upon. (transitive) to commit (e.g. a misdeed) Wie van jullie heeft deze moord begaan? ― Which one of you has committed this murder? (transitive, mostly with laten) to do, to act as one wills ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Afrikaans: begaan === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Participle ==== begaan past participle of begaan ===== Declension ===== == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan, from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bəˈɡaːn/ === Verb === begaan began === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 110