What do phrases "начать с нуля" and "с самых низов" mean?
The equivalents for English phrase "from scratch" or "from the very bottom".
There are two forms of the word “to begin“ in Russian as most of verbs in Russian:
“Начинать” is the imperfective form, which indicates an ongoing or repeated action, while “начать” is the perfective form, which indicates a completed action.
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