No. 3,986 in Turkish
devam
"Devam" means "continuation" or "ongoing" in English.
In a sentence
Devam et, başaracaksın.
Keep going, you'll succeed.
Here, 'devam' is used as part of the verb phrase 'devam et', meaning 'continue' or 'keep going', encouraging someone to persist.
Bu hikayenin devamını çok merak ediyorum.
I'm very curious about the continuation of this story.
In this sentence, 'devam' refers to the continuation or the next part of an ongoing subject, here a story.
Toplantıya öğleden sonra devam edeceğiz.
We will continue the meeting in the afternoon.
Here, 'devam' is used with the future tense verb 'edeceğiz' to indicate resuming an activity, in this case, the meeting.
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