続く
つづく
to continue
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Examples
雨の日が続いています。
あめのひがつづいています。
The rainy days are continuing.
会議は三時間も続きました。
かいぎはさんじかんもつづきました。
The meeting went on for three whole hours.
この道は海までまっすぐ続いています。
このみちはうみまでまっすぐつづいています。
This road runs straight on to the sea.
Common patterns
- 天気が続く
- the weather holds
- ずっと続く
- to go on and on
- 話が続く
- the conversation carries on
Often confused with
Memory tip
続く works in space as well as time: a road or a queue 続く just as a spell of weather does. The subject takes が because nobody is making it continue.
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