"We will start a group."

Translation: Vi ska starta en grupp.

[NattKullav1]

Kan man använda "Vi ska börja en grupp." här?

[Zmrzlina]

No, börja just sounds wrong in that sense.

[Flutterby42]

But in a previous comment on starting the car, we were told that starta is for machines. I'm confused.

[Zmrzlina]

Ok, it's not exclusive to machines.

The important thing is that börja is intransitive, meaning it cannot have an object of action.

[katariina777]

"Börja med en grupp" would sound natural to me though?

[Zmrzlina]

Good observation. To me, it seems that you can "börja med" something, but not synonymously to "starta". Like, you'd start an engine, but you'd "börja med" something in a more abstract sense.

[HoroTanuki]

I think it's:

starta = to start,
börja = to begin

So it wouldn't make sense "to begin a group"

[WaxWalbo88]

You can even say Vi kommer starta en grupp. It worked for me

[LucLunatic]

Why is "Vi ska starta en grupp" wrong?

[Aquignis]

Is att grunda too far from the meaning of att starta here?

[InvertedGo]

It means to found something, like a school or something similar. Could work with a band.