continuer
See also: continnuer
English
Etymology
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
continuer (plural continuers)
- 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 […]
- (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.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin continuāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/
Audio; “continuer à”: (file)
Verb
continuer
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “continuer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
continuer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of continuō