how to pronounce continue

/kənˈtɪn.juː/

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continue is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of continue in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… am for decades booms continue to kill names continue …”

meaning of continue

Continue means to continue or to go on with something.

continue frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR

the word continue occurs in english on average 117.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics continue can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that continue can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;