So if I (female) say this sentence I need to say "стала" right?"Я стал медленно взбираться на холм".
But no other changes... ?
Darn these male-chauvinistic text books that assume all the readers are men!
How cute that the word "холм" exists in Swedish and means more or less the same thing..! It's very rare for Swedish with Russian borrowed words, but there are some and I guess this is one of them... Maybe some Viking heard it and thought it was useful...