続ける (tsuzukeru)

Related patterns6

Similar

始はじめる
始はじめた means something just started. 続つづけた means it kept going, so it must have started before.
ていく
変かわり続つづける presents one unbroken or steadily repeated course. 変かわっていく tracks a drift that tolerates gaps, adding a direction 続つづける lacks.
〜通とおす
続つづける just says the activity didn't stop, for any length of time. 通とおす instead covers a named span end to end (最後さいごまで, 朝あさまで), where 走はしり続つづける names nothing.
ずっと
〜続つづける needs a verb to join, not an adjective or noun. ずっと instead measures the span from outside, taking states too (ずっと元気げんきだ).

Lookalikes

Same meaning3

keeps getting; goes on happening

一方いっぽうだonly keeps happening — a one-way trend with no sign of stoppingattaches at
ていくchange onward from now; do and goattaches at
てくるhas been getting; starts happening; go do and come backattaches at

All examples4

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 hachijussai 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

How it's formed1

All forms3

negative続つづけないtsuzukenai
味あじわい続つづけない
past続つづけたtsuzuketa
味あじわい続つづけた
polite続つづけますtsuzukemasu
味あじわい続つづけます

Notes

続つづける keeps the base verb's object; tense and politeness land on 続つづける
itself (研究けんきゅうし続つづける). Punctual bases repeat instead of
stretching (ノックし続つづけた); intransitive bases use 続つづく instead (降ふり続つづく).