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write + keep doing

kaki tsuzukeru

keep doing; continue to do

meaning: keep writing

もう三時間さんじかんも歩あるき続つづけてるんだけど、まだ着つかないの？

mou sanjikan mo arukitsuzuketeru n da kedo, mada tsukanai no?

We've been walking nonstop for three hours already — are we still not there? casual

雨あめは一晩中ひとばんじゅう降りふりつづける。

ame wa hitobanjuu furi tsuzukeru.

The rain keeps falling all night. neutral

  • past
  • polite

Examples

keep doing — the activity carries on without stopping

もう三時間さんじかんも歩あるき続つづけてるんだけど、まだ着つかないの？

mou sanjikan mo arukitsuzuketeru n da kedo, mada tsukanai no?

We've been walking nonstop for three hours already — are we still not there? casual

雨あめは一晩中ひとばんじゅう降ふり続つづけた。

ame wa hitobanjuu furitsuzuketa.

The rain kept falling all night. neutral

祖父そふは八十はちじゅう歳さいになった今いまも畑はたけで働はたらき続つづけている。

sofu wa hachijuusai ni natta ima mo hatake de hatarakitsuzukete iru.

Even now at eighty, my grandfather keeps working in the fields. neutral

当社とうしゃは今後こんごも品質ひんしつの向上こうじょうに取とり組くみ続つづけてまいります。

tousha wa kongo mo hinshitsu no koujou ni torikumitsuzukete mairimasu.

We will continue to work on improving quality going forward. formal

Formation

Notes

The base verb keeps its object (研究を続ける → 研究し続ける); tense, politeness, and て-form all land on 続ける itself. Punctual bases flip continuation to repetition — ノックし続けた is knock after knock, not one long knock. Intransitive durative bases also take the intransitive twin 続く (降り続く), written/reportive-leaning.

Related patterns

Similar

  • 始める

    Complementary phases of one aspect paradigm — 始めた places you just inside the event, 続けた presupposes an earlier stretch of it; 三年勉強し続けた entails a し始めた three years back, never the reverse.

  • ていく

    Both stretch an event through time — 変わり続ける presents one unbroken or steadily repeated course, while 変わっていく tracks a drift that tolerates gaps and adds a direction away from now that 続ける lacks.

Lookalikes

  • ている

    The two stack in 走り続けている, which betrays the split — 続ける keeps the activity itself going and takes tense like any verb, while ている only views an event from inside; plain states take ている freely (住んでいる), and 続ける often adds a flavor of persisting (住み続ける can imply reasons to leave).

  • 終わる

    Identical compound shape one tail apart — 書き終わる closes the activity, 書き続ける refuses the close; a skimming reader parses the shared masu-stem and coasts, so the tail verb carries the entire meaning.