To Continue
intransitive verb, godan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means continue so the verb vocab version is to continue. Please continue.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you: Two dudes (つづ) get to continue on. I'm afraid you two ladies are going to have to stay here. This is a dudes only night club.
五日も雨が続いています。
It's been raining for five consecutive days.
コウイチのジョークの後に、気まずいちんもくが続きました。
An awkward silence followed Koichi's joke.
金玉を捻ってしまい、痛みが五時間以上も続いています。
I twisted my testicles and the pain has lasted for over five hours.