〜続ける
〜続ける means to keep doing. It is a JLPT N4 grammar point. Attach this to the stem of the masu-form verb to show that an action or state continues. It can describe something someone keeps doing by choice, or a natural event such as rain continuing to fall.
Japanese sources describe it as 「ずっと〜する」.
〜続ける examples
兄は三時間勉強し続けました。
My older brother kept studying for three hours.
雨が一日降り続けました。
It kept raining all day.
〜続ける exercises
Pick what belongs in the parentheses. The answer is marked below.
毎日、日本語を勉強し（ ）。
- 始めています
- 続けています ✓
- 終わっています
- 出しています
I keep studying Japanese every day.
雨が朝から降り（ ）。
- 終わっています
- 始めています
- 続けています ✓
- 出しています
It has kept raining since morning.
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