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Prestať stops an action. Začať starts it — same infinitive side by side.
In a sentence
prestať — stop
Prestanem čítať.
I'll stop reading.
začať — begin (see začať)
Začnem čítať.
I'll start reading.
Other
Povedal som Tomovi, že by mal prestať piť.
I told Tom he should stop drinking.
Ani žiaci ani učitelia by sa nikdy nemali prestať učiť.
Neither students nor teachers should ever stop learning.
Examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).
Source
Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Includes Tatoeba example sentences when present.
Full attribution on References.