continuer

See also: continnuer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English continue

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English continuer

From continue + -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

continuer (plural continuers)

1. One who, or that which, continues.
   • 2014, Peter Perciles Trifonas, Themistoklis Aravossitas, Rethinking Heritage Language Education, page 71:

     Under the current CCAFL scheme, syllabuses are developed at three levels: beginners, continuers (second language) and background/first language speakers […]

2. (linguistics) A word or phrase interjected by the listener to indicate that he/she is listening to the speaker.
   • 2008 January 8, Denise Grady, “For Cancer Patients, Empathy Goes a Long Way”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The team found that doctors used continuers only 22 percent of the time.

Translations

one who continues

• Spanish: continuador m

Anagrams

• centurion, incounter, neutronic

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin continuāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/

• Audio; “continuer à”:

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Verb

continuer

1. to continue [with à (+ infinitive) or de (+ infinitive)]

   Synonym: prolonger

   Antonym: terminer

   Il continue à me déranger. ― He continues to annoy me.

Conjugation

Conjugation of continuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	continuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	continuant /kɔ̃.ti.nɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		continué /kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	continue /kɔ̃.ti.ny/	continues /kɔ̃.ti.ny/	continue /kɔ̃.ti.ny/	continuons /kɔ̃.ti.nɥɔ̃/	continuez /kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/	continuent /kɔ̃.ti.ny/
	imperfect	continuais /kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ/	continuais /kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ/	continuait /kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ/	continuions /kɔ̃.ti.ny.jɔ̃/	continuiez /kɔ̃.ti.ny.je/	continuaient /kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ/
	past historic2	continuai /kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/	continuas /kɔ̃.ti.nɥa/	continua /kɔ̃.ti.nɥa/	continuâmes /kɔ̃.ti.nɥam/	continuâtes /kɔ̃.ti.nɥat/	continuèrent /kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛʁ/
	future	continuerai /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁe/	continueras /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁa/	continuera /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁa/	continuerons /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɔ̃/	continuerez /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁe/	continueront /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	continuerais /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɛ/	continuerais /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɛ/	continuerait /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɛ/	continuerions /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁjɔ̃/	continueriez /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁje/	continueraient /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	continue /kɔ̃.ti.ny/	continues /kɔ̃.ti.ny/	continue /kɔ̃.ti.ny/	continuions /kɔ̃.ti.ny.jɔ̃/	continuiez /kɔ̃.ti.ny.je/	continuent /kɔ̃.ti.ny/
	imperfect2	continuasse /kɔ̃.ti.nɥas/	continuasses /kɔ̃.ti.nɥas/	continuât /kɔ̃.ti.nɥa/	continuassions /kɔ̃.ti.nɥa.sjɔ̃/	continuassiez /kɔ̃.ti.nɥa.sje/	continuassent /kɔ̃.ti.nɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	continue /kɔ̃.ti.ny/	—	continuons /kɔ̃.ti.nɥɔ̃/	continuez /kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• continuer sur une lancée

Related terms

• continu
• continuateur, continuatrice
• continuation
• continuel
• continuité
• continûment

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: kontinue, kontinwe, kontinye

Further reading

• “continuer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• centurion

Latin

Verb

continuer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of continuō