Continue in Different Languages
Discover 'Continue' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Continue
Afrikaans aanhou | ||
Albanian vazhdoj | ||
Amharic ቀጥል | ||
Arabic استمر | ||
Armenian շարունակել | ||
Assamese অব্যাহত ৰাখক | ||
Aymara sarantaña | ||
Azerbaijani davam edin | ||
Bambara ka taa fɛ | ||
Basque jarraitu | ||
Belarusian працягваць | ||
Bengali চালিয়ে যান | ||
Bhojpuri चालू रखीं | ||
Bosnian nastavi | ||
Bulgarian продължи | ||
Catalan continuar | ||
Cebuano padayon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 继续 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 繼續 | ||
Corsican cuntinuà | ||
Croatian nastaviti | ||
Czech pokračovat | ||
Danish blive ved | ||
Dhivehi ކުރިއަށްގެންދިޔުން | ||
Dogri जारी रक्खना | ||
Dutch doorgaan met | ||
English continue | ||
Esperanto daŭrigi | ||
Estonian jätkata | ||
Ewe yi edzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) magpatuloy | ||
Finnish jatkaa | ||
French continuer | ||
Frisian trochgean | ||
Galician continuar | ||
Georgian გაგრძელება | ||
German fortsetzen | ||
Greek να συνεχίσει | ||
Guarani mbojoapy | ||
Gujarati ચાલુ રાખો | ||
Haitian Creole kontinye | ||
Hausa ci gaba | ||
Hawaiian hoʻomau | ||
Hebrew לְהַמשִׁיך | ||
Hindi जारी रखें | ||
Hmong mus txuas ntxiv | ||
Hungarian folytatni | ||
Icelandic halda áfram | ||
Igbo gaa n'ihu | ||
Ilocano ituloy | ||
Indonesian terus | ||
Irish leanúint ar aghaidh | ||
Italian continua | ||
Japanese 継続する | ||
Javanese terusake | ||
Kannada ಮುಂದುವರಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh жалғастыру | ||
Khmer បន្ត | ||
Kinyarwanda komeza | ||
Konkani फुडें व्हरप | ||
Korean 계속하다 | ||
Krio kɔntinyu | ||
Kurdish berdewamkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەردەوام بوون | ||
Kyrgyz улантуу | ||
Lao ສືບຕໍ່ | ||
Latin continue | ||
Latvian turpināt | ||
Lingala kokoba | ||
Lithuanian tęsti | ||
Luganda -eeyongera | ||
Luxembourgish weiderfueren | ||
Macedonian продолжи | ||
Maithili करैत रहू | ||
Malagasy hanohy | ||
Malay teruskan | ||
Malayalam തുടരുക | ||
Maltese kompli | ||
Maori haere tonu | ||
Marathi सुरू | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯈꯥ ꯆꯠꯊꯕ | ||
Mizo chhunzawm | ||
Mongolian үргэлжлүүлэх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဆက်လက် | ||
Nepali जारी राख्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian fortsette | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pitilizani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଜାରି ରଖ | | ||
Oromo itti fufuu | ||
Pashto دوام ورکړئ | ||
Persian ادامه هید | ||
Polish kontyntynuj | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) continuar | ||
Punjabi ਜਾਰੀ ਰੱਖੋ | ||
Quechua qatiq | ||
Romanian continua | ||
Russian продолжить | ||
Samoan faʻaauau | ||
Sanskrit अनुवर्तते | ||
Scots Gaelic lean ort | ||
Sepedi tšwela pele | ||
Serbian настави | ||
Sesotho tsoelapele | ||
Shona enderera | ||
Sindhi جاري رکو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දිගටම | ||
Slovak ďalej | ||
Slovenian nadaljujte | ||
Somali sii wad | ||
Spanish seguir | ||
Sundanese teraskeun | ||
Swahili endelea | ||
Swedish fortsätta | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) magpatuloy | ||
Tajik идома диҳед | ||
Tamil தொடரவும் | ||
Tatar дәвам итегез | ||
Telugu కొనసాగించండి | ||
Thai ดำเนินการต่อ | ||
Tigrinya ቀፃሊ | ||
Tsonga yisa emahlweni | ||
Turkish devam et | ||
Turkmen dowam et | ||
Twi (Akan) toa so | ||
Ukrainian продовжувати | ||
Urdu جاری رہے | ||
Uyghur داۋاملاشتۇرۇش | ||
Uzbek davom eting | ||
Vietnamese tiếp tục | ||
Welsh parhau | ||
Xhosa qhubeka | ||
Yiddish פאָרזעצן | ||
Yoruba tesiwaju | ||
Zulu qhubeka |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "aanhou" can also mean "to persevere" or "to insist". |
| Albanian | Vazoj derives from the Proto-Albanian *wazoj, which also means "to carry, to convey". |
| Amharic | ቀጥል (qettel) can also mean "to follow" or "to pursue". |
| Arabic | The word "استمر" (continue) is derived from the root "س م ر" (to talk late into the night), implying an extended or uninterrupted action. |
| Armenian | "The Armenian verb շարունակել ("continue") derives from the Persian "sherooneedun," where "sheroo (day-by-day) + need" means "continuous" in Armenian, hence 'go ahead', 'go on'. |
| Azerbaijani | "Davam edin" (continue) in Azerbaijani literally means "to pursue a claim" or "to follow up on something." |
| Basque | "Jarraitu" derives from the Basque word "iraun," meaning "to endure". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "працягваць" comes from the Old Church Slavonic word "продолжати", which means "to follow up" or "to carry on". |
| Bengali | চালিয়ে যান shares its stem with চলতি, meaning current or present in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | Nastavi in Bosnian, derived from the Slavic "*staviti" or "*stati," originally meant "to stand" or "to put into a position."} |
| Bulgarian | The word "продължи" ("continue") also means "elongate" or "stretch out" in Bulgarian, as in "продължи ръката" ("stretch out the hand"). |
| Catalan | The word "continuar" also means "to persist" or "to go on doing something" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | "Padayon" also means "keep up with" or "keep on" in the context of a race or competition. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "继续" (jìxù) originally meant "to extend the thread of a garment" |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "繼續" can also mean "to continue" or "to keep on" in Chinese (Traditional). |
| Corsican | The word 'cuntinuà' is derived from the Latin word 'continuare', and it also has the alternate meaning of 'to endure' in Corsican. |
| Croatian | The verb "nastaviti" can also mean "to put back on" or "to add more" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The Czech word 'pokračovat' also means 'to follow' or 'to pursue' |
| Danish | Danish "Blive ved" (continue) comes from "blive" (stay) + "ved" (by). |
| Dutch | The Dutch expression "doorgaan met" can also mean "to endure" or "to persist in". |
| Esperanto | “Daŭrigi” has an alternate meaning of “be enough” in modern Esperanto. |
| Estonian | The verb 'jätkata' can also refer to 'resuming something interrupted, continuing, or persisting' in Estonian, with possible cognates in Finnish ('jatkaa'), Võro ('jatkma'), and Livonian ('jätdā') as well as in some Uralic languages like Udmurt ('jatkysini'). |
| Finnish | "Jatkaa" is often used in everyday language in the sense of "last". |
| French | En francés "continuer" significa "continuar", pero también puede significar "acompañar". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "trochgean" is also related to the Middle Dutch "trekken", and ultimately to the Proto-Indo-European root "*treǵʰ-", meaning "to draw" or "to run". |
| Galician | Continuar is used in Galician to refer to continuing, lasting, or maintaining something, or to extending, growing, or increasing something. |
| German | The word 'fortsetzen' is derived from the Middle High German word 'fortsetzen', which means 'to go on, to continue' |
| Greek | The Greek word "να συνεχίσει" can also mean "to keep (going)" or "to pursue". |
| Gujarati | ચાલુ રાખો (Continue) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'chalati', which means 'to move' or 'to flow'. It can also be used to mean 'to keep going' or 'to persist'. |
| Haitian Creole | "Kontinye" is also used to mean "to be in a relationship with" or "to live with" someone. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'ci gaba' has roots in the Arabic phrase 'i'da gabara', meaning 'if it crosses'. |
| Hawaiian | "Hoʻomau" also means 'to cause to stand' or 'to establish' and derives from the Polynesian root word *maʻu*, which means 'to hold' or 'to be firm'" |
| Hebrew | The word "לְהַמשִׁיך" (lehamshikh) in Hebrew derives from the root "מש" (mem-shin), meaning "to draw out" or "to extend". |
| Hindi | The Hindi verb "जारी रखें" also means "be responsible for the welfare of" like in "उसका जारी रखना पड़ता है अपने तीनों बच्चों का" ("He has to continue for all his three children"). |
| Hmong | In the case of "mus txuas ntxiv" the "mus" can also be removed from the sentence as well and still be translated to the same thing, "txuas ntxiv." |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "folytatni" derives from the Old Turkish "bulqut" meaning "to pursue" |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, the phrase “halda áfram” can also have the meanings of “persist”, “endure” and “survive”. |
| Igbo | "Gaa n'ihu" also means "to advance" or "to progress" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "terus" also means "straight" or "directly." |
| Italian | The Latin word "continuus" means "uninterrupted" and is related to the word "continent" which originally referred to a continuous landmass. |
| Japanese | The verb 「継続する」 is cognate with 「続ける」 and 「続々」、which both mean "continue". |
| Javanese | Terusake (Javanese for "continue") originates from two words: "terus" (continuous) and "sake" (go) |
| Kannada | ಮುಂದುವರಿಸಿ means "to persist or to continue" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "मुन" (mun), meaning "to think". |
| Khmer | បន្ត also means to extend something |
| Korean | The word "계속하다" can also mean "to proceed" or "to go on". |
| Kurdish | The word "berdewamkirin" in Kurdish, which means "continue", is derived from the Persian word "berdewam". "Berdewam" means "continuous" or "uninterrupted" in Persian. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "улантуу" can also refer to "extending" or "stretching" something. |
| Latin | The Latin word "continuus" meant both "continuous" and "uninterrupted". |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "Turpināt" also means "extend", "expand", "increase", "enlarge", "lengthen", or "prolong". |
| Lithuanian | "Tęsti" is derived from the Proto-Balto-Slavic *tęsti, meaning "to stretch" or "to pull." |
| Luxembourgish | The verb "weiderfueren" originally meant "to lead" or "to further" in Middle High German. |
| Macedonian | The word "продолжи" in Macedonian can also mean "to last" or "to extend". |
| Malagasy | The word 'hanohy' can also mean 'to endure', 'to bear' or 'to wait'. |
| Malay | The verb 'teruskan' comes from the Arabic word 'tawshiyyaha' meaning 'to exhort' or 'to recommend' |
| Malayalam | The word "തുടരുക" can also mean "to hang" or "to be suspended". |
| Maltese | Kompli is ultimately derived from the Italian word compiere, meaning "to complete." |
| Maori | The Maori word "haere tonu" also means "to move along" or "to go ahead". |
| Marathi | In Marathi, the word "सुरू" (suru) also means "to open" or "to begin". |
| Mongolian | үргэлжлүүлэх has a sense of 'keeping up' with something or 'going on' in time and space, not just 'carrying on' doing something. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | “ဆက်လက်” is based on the Sanskrit word “sakta,” meaning “to be able,” and is related to the Burmese word “khwe,” meaning “to do.” |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "जारी राख्नुहोस्" (continue) is derived from the Sanskrit word "jarati" (to flow). |
| Norwegian | Fortsette is derived from the Old Norse word "forseta," which means to "start" or "begin." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Yao, 'pitilizani' means 'to be far apart' or 'be spread out.' |
| Pashto | دوام ورکړئ is derived from Arabic and also means 'to extend' or 'to make permanent'. |
| Persian | The Persian word "ادامه هید" ("continue") can also be used to mean "continuity" or "extension". |
| Polish | The Polish word "kontyntynuj" comes from the Latin "continere" meaning "to hold together" or "to keep in one piece." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Continuar" (Portuguese), from Latin, means "to carry on" or "to hold together". |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਜਾਰੀ ਰੱਖੋ" (continue) is ultimately derived from the Prakrit "jarai" (continuation), which in turn originates from the Sanskrit "jarati" (to go, to continue). |
| Romanian | "Continuu" (to continue) is the Latin word for "continuous". |
| Russian | The word "Продолжить" also means "to elongate" or "to prolong". |
| Samoan | The word "faʻaauau" in Samoan can also mean "to flow continuously" or "to endure". |
| Scots Gaelic | "Lean ort" is a phrase in Scots Gaelic that means "to continue". It is pronounced "lay-an ort" and can be broken down into "lean" (verb) and "ort" (preposition). |
| Serbian | The word "Настави" can also mean "teach" or "instruct" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word "tsoelapele" also means "to follow up" or "to pursue" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word "enderera" also means "to repeat" or "to do again," highlighting its connection to the concept of continuity. |
| Sindhi | Derived from the verb 'جاري' ( جاری ), meaning 'to run', the term 'جاري رکو' ( जारी رکّو ) conveys the idea of ongoing or continuous action or movement. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | දිගටම has many meanings aside from "continue", for example, "always" or "for long periods" |
| Slovak | "ďalej" comes from the Old Slovak word "dál", meaning "far" or "away". |
| Slovenian | The verb 'nadaljujte' derives from 'dalj(e)', meaning further or distance. Thus, 'nadaljujte' can also mean 'to go further' or 'to proceed'. |
| Somali | Sii wad's origin is traced back to Sida Wad (Si-da-wad) , which means 'to make it again' |
| Spanish | The Spanish verb “seguir” is derived from the Latin word “sequor”, which means “to follow”. In addition to meaning “to continue”, “seguir” can also mean “to pursue”, “to chase”, or “to imitate”. |
| Sundanese | The word "teraskeun" in Sundanese can also mean "to keep doing something" or "to carry on with something." |
| Swahili | "Endelea" is probably derived from the word "endelezo," which means "the act of continuing." |
| Swedish | The verb 'fortsätta' comes from the noun 'fort' ('fortress'; compare English 'forth') and originally meant 'to go onward to a fortress'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Magpatuloy" derives from the root word "tuloy" which means "straight" or "forward," hence its meaning as "to continue" on a path or course of action. |
| Tamil | "தொடரவும்" derives from the Tamil root "தொடர்", meaning both "to continue" and "relationship", and can be used to describe both physical and abstract continuity. |
| Thai | The term "ดำเนินการต่อ" literally means "ดำเนินการ (action) -ต่อ (onwards)" and is an abbreviated form of "ดำเนินการต่อไป (action onwards)". |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "devam et" also means "to proceed," "to carry on," and "to go on." |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian verb 'продовжувати' also means 'to carry out', 'to execute', or 'to implement' something |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "جاری رہے" literally means "flowing" or "moving", implying ongoing action or a continuing process. |
| Uzbek | The word "davom eting" also shares a root with the word "devor", which means "to devour" or "to consume" in other Turkic languages. |
| Vietnamese | "Tiếp tục" (continue) in Vietnamese is a compound noun derived from "tiếp" (to take over, to follow up, to receive) and "tục" (customary practice). |
| Welsh | The word 'parhau' in Welsh can also mean 'to extend' or 'to last'. |
| Xhosa | The word "qhubeka" is the active verb form of the verb "qhuba," which also means "to carry on" or "to drive on." |
| Yiddish | Yiddish 'פאָרזעצן'/porzetzn derives from German and means 'forward-sit' in the sense of 'sit forward' rather than 'sit in front of' |
| Yoruba | The word "tesiwaju" has been adopted into the English vocabulary and is used to refer to someone who is in a leadership position or who is taking the lead in a particular situation. |
| Zulu | The word "qhubeka" in Zulu comes from the root "qhuba", which means "to move forward" or "to push forward". |
| English | "Continue" derives from Latin "continere", meaning "hold together" or "contain". |