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Empezar Conjugation Practice

Empezar is the everyday way to say start (empezar a + infinitive). It combines the e→ie stem change with a spelling rule: z becomes c before e, so yo empecé and the subjunctive empiece.

to start, to beginStem-changing e→ie70 exercises in 5 tenses
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e→ie in the present (empiezo) plus a z→c spelling change before e: empecé, empiece.

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