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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we're going to explore the Spanish verb,

Seguir, spelled S-E-G-U-I-R with a silent U, Seguir.

This is a complicated verb with multiple meanings.

At its most simple use, Seguir means to follow.

Here's an example.

I'm going to follow him.

But more often,

Seguer means to continue.

Here's an example.

Do you want to continue doing that?

So there's something important to notice about this sentence.

Right after seguir doing that, we've used a gerund.

Normally we've been using gerons after estar.

For example, estas asieno algo.

But Seguer is another verb that really likes to be followed by Jarens, especially when it means to continue.

Here's another example.

He has to continue carrying that. Now in English, we rarely say continue doing or continue carrying.

Instead we say keep doing or keep carrying.

And that's because the English verb keep means more than one thing.

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