How to say “continue” in 36 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- continuar/kontiˈnwaɾ/ Spanish
- продолжать[prədɐɫˈʐatʲ] Russian
- 繼續/t͡ɕi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕy⁵¹/ Chinese
- συνέχισε/siˈneçiˌse/ Greek
- נמשך/nimˈʃaχ/ Hebrew
- തുടരുക/t̪uɖɐɾuɡɐ/ Malayalam
“continue” in Spanish: continuar · French: continue · Italian: continuare · Portuguese: continua · Chinese: 繼續 · Russian: продолжать · Greek: συνέχισε
It is commonest in Malay, where teruskan is the 354th most used word.
Continue in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian vazhdoj[vaʒdɔj] to continue #979
- Arabic تبقى/tabaqqaː/ to remain, to continue, to stay #350
- Basque segitu/s̺eɡitu/ to continue, persist #798
- Bosnian nastavi/ˈnastɐvɪ/ to continue #636
- Catalan continua[kun.tiˈnu.ə] to continue #998
- Chinese 繼續/t͡ɕi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕy⁵¹/ to continue; to persist #680
- Croatian nastavi/ˈnastɐvɪ/ to continue #716
- Czech pokračovat[ˈpokrat͡ʃovat] to continue #913
- Danish fortsæt/ˈfɒːdˌsɛd/ to continue #849
- Dutch doorgaan/ˈdoːrɣaːn/ to go through, to proceed, continue #1,326
- English keep[k̟çi(ː)p] To continue in; to not intermit or fall from;… #179
- Esperanto daŭrigu/dau̯ˈriɡu/ to continue #501
- Estonian jätkame/ˈjætkɑme/ to continue #1,286
- Finnish jatkaa/ˈjɑtkɑːˣ/ to continue, keep on, go on, proceed, keep… #723
- French continue/kɔ̃.ti.ny/ to continue #711
- Galician continúa/kontiˈnua/ to continue #1,178
- German dauert/ˈdaʊɐt/ to last, to continue, to persist #1,051
- Greek συνέχισε/siˈneçiˌse/ to continue, keep going, carry on #763
- Hebrew נמשך/nimˈʃaχ/ To continue, to last, to go on #1,576
- Indonesian melanjutkan/məlanˈd͡ʒutkan/ to continue #1,213
- Italian continuare/kon.ti.nuˈa.re/ to continue, to keep on doing #997
- Latvian turpini/ˈturpini/ to continue, to go on doing, to not interrupt #613
- Macedonian продолжи[ˈprɔdɔɫʒi] to continue #383
- Malay teruskan/təˈruskan/ continue, proceed #354
- Malayalam തുടരുക/t̪uɖɐɾuɡɐ/ to continue #1,285
- Norwegian fortsett/ˈfɔʈˌʂɛt/ to continue #601
- Portuguese continua/kõ.t͡ʃiˈnu.ɐ/ to continue; to go on #573
- Romanian continuă/konˈti.nu.ə/ to continue #787
- Russian продолжать[prədɐɫˈʐatʲ] to continue, to proceed, to go on #1,412
- Serbian nastavi/ˈnastɐvɪ/ to continue #642
- Slovak pokračovať/ˈpɔkrat͡ʃɔvac/ to continue #507
- Spanish continuar/kontiˈnwaɾ/ to continue, to carry on #1,914
- Swedish fortsätt/ˈfuːtsɛt/ to continue, to proceed #580
- Tagalog magpatuloy/maɡpaˈtuloj/ to continue #720
- Tamil தொடர்/t̪oɖɐɾ/ to follow uninterruptedly, to continue in… #1,939
- Ukrainian продовжувати[prɔˈdɔu̯ʒʊʋɐte] to continue #1,749
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.