継ぐ – Vocabulary details

継つぐ

Meanings

Verb (5-dan, ぐ, transitive)

1. to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to take over; to follow

2. to patch (clothes); to mend; to repair

3. to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with; to feed with; to follow up with (e.g. remarks); to gather (one's breath)

Alt. forms

Kanji used

継

inherit

Pitch accent

つ

ぐ

Conjugations...Used in: 2955

Used in vocabulary (14 in total)

受うけ継つぐ

to inherit; to succeed; to take over

引ひき継つぐ

to take over; to hand over

言こと葉ばを継つぐ

to continue (to say)

11 more...

Examples (8 in total)

彼かれは王おう位いを継つぐだろう。

He will succeed to the throne.

トムは家か業ぎょうを継ついだ。

Tom inherited the family business.

彼かれは父ちちの仕し事ごとを継つぎたい。

He wants to take over his father's business.

エドワードエドワアドが叔お父じの財ざい産さんを継ついだ。

Edward inherited his uncle's estate.

父ちち親おやが引いん退たいすると彼かれは商しょう売ばいを継ついだ。

On his father's retirement he took over the business.

ブッシュが大だい統とう領りょうとしてレーガンのあとを継ついだ。

Bush followed Reagan as president.

初はじめはさ、家いえの仕し事ごとを継つぐ気きはさらさらなかったんだ。

At first, I had no intention of taking over the family business.

ジョンはその会かい社しゃできっと父ちちのあとを継つぐだろう。