How to say “continue” in 36 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.
It is commonest in English, where keep is the 179th most used word.
- Albanian vazhdoj to continue #979
- Arabic تبقى to remain, to continue, to stay #350
- Basque segitu to continue, persist #798
- Bosnian nastavi to continue #636
- Catalan continua to continue #998
- Chinese 繼續 to continue; to persist #680
- Croatian nastavi to continue #716
- Czech pokračovat to continue #913
- Danish fortsæt to continue #849
- Dutch doorgaan to go through, to proceed, continue #1,326
- English keep To continue in; to not intermit or fall from;… #179
- Esperanto daŭrigu to continue #501
- Estonian jätkame to continue #1,286
- Finnish jatkaa to continue, keep on, go on, proceed, keep… #723
- French continue to continue #711
- Galician continúa to continue #1,178
- German dauert to last, to continue, to persist #1,051
- Greek συνέχισε to continue, keep going, carry on #763
- Hebrew נמשך To continue, to last, to go on #1,576
- Indonesian melanjutkan to continue #1,213
- Italian continuare to continue, to keep on doing #997
- Latvian turpini to continue, to go on doing, to not interrupt #613
- Macedonian продолжи to continue #383
- Malay teruskan continue, proceed #354
- Malayalam തുടരുക to continue #1,285
- Norwegian fortsett to continue #601
- Portuguese continua to continue; to go on #573
- Romanian continuă to continue #787
- Russian продолжать to continue, to proceed, to go on #1,412
- Serbian nastavi to continue #642
- Slovak pokračovať to continue #507
- Spanish continuar to continue, to carry on #1,914
- Swedish fortsätt to continue, to proceed #580
- Tagalog magpatuloy to continue #720
- Tamil தொடர் to follow uninterruptedly, to continue in… #1,939
- Ukrainian продовжувати to continue #1,749
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.