io continuai

continued

→ continuare
continu to continue, to keep going + ai 1st-person singular past
verb · 1st-person singular, past tense Rare #30,432
continued A past-tense form commonly used in written or narrative Italian.
IT: Continuai a leggere finché non fece buio.
EN: I continued reading until it got dark.
Conjugation of continuare
Indicative past
SingularPlural
First continuai —
Third continuò —

Continuai i lavori.

I kept working.

Io continuai a leggere il libro.

I continued reading the book.

Continuai a gridare.

I kept screaming.

Continuai a urlare.

I kept screaming.

«Numero due », continuai.

“Number two,” I continued.

Non in fretta, ma continuai.

Not quickly, but I kept going.

Continuai il mio interrogatorio.

I continued my interrogation.

— Barfi! (2012)

Continuai a pulire.

I continued cleaning.

«Ma posso parlarne con il mio lettore di legge », continuai.

“But I can talk about it with my law reader,” I continued.