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Začať starts an action. Prestať stops it — same infinitive for a clean contrast.
In a sentence
začať — begin
Začnem čítať.
I'll start reading.
prestať — stop (see prestať)
Prestanem čítať.
I'll stop reading.
Other
Radšej by si mal začať teraz.
You'd better start now.
Zajtra môžem začať.
I can start tomorrow.
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.