Definition of 継ぐ
Words related to 継ぐ
- (v5g) to follow in succession; to happen one after another
相次ぐ不祥事にも関わらず、警察はオメオメ違反切符を切っている。
Despite their own scandals, the police continue to make arrests as though nothing had happened at all.
Sentences containing 継ぐ
It won't be easy to find someone capable of taking his place.
When the politician died, everybody hoped the son would follow in his father's footsteps.
しかし、言語の場合ばあい は、私達が遺伝いでん 的にてき 受け継ぐうけつぐ のは、話したり、理解りかい したりする する能力のうりょく だけである。私達が話すはなす 特定とくてい の1つないし複数の言語は、遺伝いでん ではなく、文化的な伝達でんたつ によって私達に伝えられるのである。
In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.