"to continue, to go on" in seven languages
Meaningto continue, to go on
Spanish
continuar
/kontiˈnwaɾ/
learned
Seguir is the everyday alternative: sigue lloviendo.
French
continuer
/kɔ̃tinɥe/
learned
Italian
continuare
/kontiˈnware/
learned
Portuguese
continuar
/kõtʃiˈnwah/
learned
Romanian
continua
/kontinuˈa/
learned
Catalan
continuar
/kuntinuˈa/
learned
English
continue
/kənˈtɪnju/
from Latin/French · Old French continuer
English → Italianto continue, to go oncontinuareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CONTINUĀRE‘to join together, to carry on (CONTINĒRE 'to hold together')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A learned verb that looks the same in all four languages. A continent is land 'held together', from the same verb CONTINĒRE.
English relatives: continue, continuous, continent, contain
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In a sentence
- esContinuó lloviendo toda la noche.
- frIl a continué à pleuvoir toute la nuit.
- itHa continuato a piovere tutta la notte.
- ptContinuou chovendo a noite toda.
- roA continuat să plouă toată noaptea.
- caVa continuar plovent tota la nit.
- enIt continued raining all night.
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