starten

Etymology
From (modeled on the  verb ); compare with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to start

Etymology
; compare with 🇨🇬 and native High 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to start race car, airplane, etc.
 * 2)  to start something
 * 1)  to start something

Usage notes

 * Transitive starten is only used as “cause to run/move/proceed” (in a concrete or figurative sense). Possible objects of starten are machines, missiles, operations, projects, events, etc. The verb cannot be used in the sense of “begin to do”, for example in a sentence like: “He started smoking.” For this see and.