Many times due to our way of speaking so typical of some autonomous communities, or purely colloquially, we pronounce certain words differently from how they should be pronounced, and then when writing them questions arise about how to do it and what letters to use.
For example, in the case of how to write start or start, many doubts arise and there are many people who write it wrong. That is because there are some places where you tend to pronounce the “c”, the “s” and the “z” in the same way, without making any distinction phonetically speaking, but of course, when writing is when they are committed the mistakes. Although they are also a combination of letters that tend to confuse when writing words with them.
Writing correctly is necessary to establish good written communication and make us understand. Spelling errors damage that communication and the message, since the interlocutor will not understand what we write or will only remember the spelling errors.
That is why we are going to give you a little review on how to write start or start so that you can clarify your doubts and do not make mistakes again when writing the word.
Start
We look for the word empesar in the dictionary and it does not appear, this is because the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language does not recognize this way of writing the word with “s”, so its use is incorrect and it would be committing a mistake spelling when writing it.
Begin
Empezar is the correct way to write this word, using the “z” instead of the “s”. This is how we find it when we look it up in the dictionary. There is also a rule that says that verbs that end in “-zar” will always be written with “z” and not with “s”, such as start, begin, slide, etc.
The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language defines the word start as follows:
- Start something
- Begin the use or consumption of something
- Said of one thing: that has a beginning
Examples:
I finally start with the new diet.
We started to eat even though Pedro was missing.
It is a verb of the first conjugation , whose impersonal forms are:
Infinitive: begin
Example: The show is about to start
Gerund: beginning
Example: Hurry up, the movie is starting.
Participle : begun
Example: The change has started.
Synonyms
The word start has some synonyms seeing the meaning from four different senses. (A synonym is a word that means the same as another, so one can be substituted for another in a text.)
Synonyms of the word begin are:
- In the sense of undertaking: to undertake, to undertake.
- In the sense of being born: to be born, to originate, to arise.
- In the sense of beginning: start, begin, turn on, begin, open.
- In the sense that it refers to the day: dawn, dawn.
Antonyms
There are also several antonyms to the word start that you can use to say the message with the opposite meaning to the meaning of the word start.
The antonyms of the word begin are:
Finish, exhaust, fall, close, cease, close, dispose, finalize, expire, conclude, consummate, finalize, seal, end, stay, finish off, perish, prescribe, liquidate, die, expire, extinguish, decline, dispose, comply, culminate, crown
Some useful expressions with the word begin are:
It starts with something: With this expression we understand that from principles that are not very important or that we do not give much importance to, some that do have it can originate.
If I start you…: This expression is used to imply or threaten someone that they should be punished.
With these data on how to write begin or begin, we hope that you no longer have any doubts and do not make any spelling mistakes when writing your texts.