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La reunión comenzará a las diez.

La reunión comenzará a las diez.
The meeting will begin at ten.
From Lesson 296:Formal words for everyday ideas (comenzar, regresar, utilizar)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about La reunión comenzará a las diez.

Could I use empezará instead of comenzará in this sentence?
Yes, absolutely. Both empezar and comenzar mean "to start" or "to begin" and are interchangeable here. Empezar is slightly more common in everyday spoken Spanish, while comenzar is a bit more formal, which fits nicely with a professional word like reunión (meeting).
Why does the word reunión use the feminine article la?
In Spanish, almost all nouns that end in -ión (like reunión, canción, or estación) are feminine. That is why we say la reunión. Notice that these words carry an accent mark on the final o in the singular form, but they lose the accent in the plural (for example, las reuniones).
Why do we say a las diez instead of just a diez?
When telling time in Spanish, you must include the definite article before the number. We use the feminine plural las because it secretly refers to las horas (the hours). So, a las diez essentially means "at the ten hours."

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