続く — meaning in English

English meaning

• continue verb To keep doing something without stopping, or to start again after a pause.
• ensue verb To happen afterward, especially as a result of something.
• last adj Coming after all others; final.
• succeed verb To achieve a desired goal or outcome.

Senses

続く is used for these senses in English:

• continue (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
• continue (intransitive) To resume.
• ensue (obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. [15th–17th c.]
• last (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
• succeed (intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).
• to be continued (writing, television) Used at the end of an episode of a serial publication or program to indicate that the story continues in the next episode.

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