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What is the difference between démarrer and commencer ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between démarrer and commencer ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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ce sont des synonymes, mais ils peuvent changer de sens selon la phrase.
exemple avec un même sens :
La course va démarrer ou
La course va commencer
sens différent!
exemple :
Je vais démarrer la voiture et laisser tourner le moteur ( je ne peux pas dire je vais commencer la voiture 🙅♀️)
Je commence par couper les oignons en petit morceaux ( je ne peux pas dire je démarre par couper les oignons en petit morceaux 🙅♀️)
understand 😉
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- Italian
both means "to start" but "démarrer" is also used when you turn on the car
démarrer la voiture (turn on the car)
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démarrer s'il s'agit d' une action simple, souvent un processus, un mouvement
commencer a un sens plus large
( mais on ne pourra" commencer" sa voiture)
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Il n'y a presque mas de différences entre démarrer et commencer.
Mais le verbe démarrer s'utilise plus pour les machines🚗🚘🚙🚚🚛💻
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from internet:
Démarrer implies some initial impulse or effort. Etymologically it comes from désamarrer (i.e. “undock” a boat, which is not necessarily a trivial matter). An extended figurative use slowly emerged, competing with the use of commencer in the beginning of the 20th century, but commencer is still far more common.
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