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English
Etymology
From continuous + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/
- Hyphenation: con‧tin‧u‧ous‧ly
Adverb
continuously (not comparable)
- Without pause.
The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously.
2014 May 21, Andrew McGettigan, Shiv Malik, John Domokos, “Private sector and students profit at the college they call 'the ATM'”, in The Guardian:"We continuously strive to improve our processes and indeed have updated our systems accordingly. Ultimately, however, it is for the student to make a proper declaration to SLC to draw down funding," LSST said in a statement.
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without pause
- Armenian: անդուլ (hy) (andul), անընդհատ (hy) (anəndhat), շարունակ (hy) (šarunak), անընդմեջ (hy) (anəndmeǰ)
- Assamese: একেলেথাৰিয়ে (ekeletharie)
- Catalan: contínuament (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不斷 / 不断 (zh) (bùduàn), 一直 (zh) (yīzhí)
- Danish: kontinuerligt
- Dutch: continu (nl)
- Esperanto: senĉese
- Finnish: jatkuvasti (fi), tauotta (fi)
- French: continuellement (fr)
- Galician: continuamente (gl), continuadamente, arreo (gl)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: ständig (de), ununterbrochen (de), andauernd (de), kontinuierlich (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: διαμπερές (diamperés), συνεχῶς (sunekhôs)
- Hindi: लगातार (hi) (lagātār)
- Hungarian: folyamatosan (hu)
- Ingrian: yhtäperrää
- Italian: continuamente (it), costantemente (it)
- Japanese: 連続的に (ja) (れんぞくてきに, renzokuteki-ni)
- Kabuverdianu: afiu
- Korean: 계속(繼續) (ko) (gyesok), 연달아 (yeondara)
- Latin: perpetuē
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kontinuerlig (no)
- Nynorsk: kontinuerleg
- Ojibwe: aabda
- Polish: nieprzerwanie (pl), ciągle (pl)
- Portuguese: continuamente (pt)
- Romanian: încontinuu (ro), perpetuu (ro), continuu (ro), fără pauză, neîntrerupt (ro)
- Russian: непреры́вно (ru) (neprerývno), постоя́нно (ru) (postojánno)
- Scottish Gaelic: gu sìor
- Spanish: continuadamente, continuamente (es), de continuo (es)
- Swedish: kontinuerligt (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: durmadan (tr)
- Yiddish: כּסדר (keseyder)
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