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afah

Malagasy

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Alemannic German

Alternative forms

afange , ahfange , aafange , aafangä , afangä , ahfangä , aafanga , afanga , ahfanga , afang , afangeh
afa , aafa , afaa , aafaa , aafah , ahfah , afaah , afo , afoo , afoh , aafo , aafoo , ahfoh , aafoh , aafè , aafëë

Etymology

From Middle High German anevāhen , from Old High German anafāhan , from Proto-West Germanic *anafą̄han . Equivalent to aa- +‎ fah .

Verb

afah (auxiliary haa )

(intransitive ) to begin, commence, start
(transitive ) to start doing something
Ich han agfange, Japanisch lerne. ― I('ve) started learning Japanese.
- 2025 November 28, sogarnonice, Instagram ‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 June 2026:
  Ich han agfange jede Morge mini Outfits zum go schaffe fötele
  I've started taking pictures of my work outfits every morning
- 2026 June 8, u/jainybainy, r/BUENZLI‎^[2] (Reddit post), archived from the original on 11 June 2026:
  Ha gsünger gässä u agfange Sport mache. Dür das hanis gschafft 50kg abznä! I füele mi rundum wöler i minere Hut. :)
  I ate healthier and started doing exercise. By doing this I managed to lose 50kg! I feel more comfortable in my own skin all around. :)
(intransitive ) to start doing something [with mit (+ dative )]

Usage notes

ahfah/ahfange differs from Standard German anfangen in that it doesn't require z /zu .
This verb can be reduplicated by replacing ah with the infinitive (only when ah is separated from the verb), so one might see something like "i fa afa öppis mache" as an alternative to "i fa a öppis mache" (I start to do something). See the Wikipedia article for Swiss German.

Conjugation

Separable verb. See fah for the conjugation.

Antonyms

ufhöre

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