begaan

• IPA^(key): /bəˈɣaːn/

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• Hyphenation: be‧gaan
• Rhymes: -aːn

From Middle Dutch begaen. Equivalent to be- +‎ gaan.

begaan

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (transitive) to commit (e.g. a misdeed)

   Wie van jullie heeft deze moord begaan? ― Which one of you has committed this murder?

4. (transitive, mostly with laten) to do, to act as one wills

• Afrikaans: begaan

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

begaan

1. past participle of begaan

From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan, from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan.

• IPA^(key): /bəˈɡaːn/

begaan

1. began
   • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 3-5:

     Hea daffed his cooat, pidh it an a bushe, an begaan to peale a cooat, an zide,

     He took off his coat, put it on a bush, and began to beat the coat, and said,

• 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