How to say 'Keep [Doing Something]'?

[Rei Yahya]

A question which has often crossed my mind but I've never sat down to figure out until now.

How would you say 'to keep [doing something]'? As in, 'he keeps eating too much', 'she keeps playing that stupid game', 'he keeps showing up late'.

よろしくお願いします！

 

[undrentide]

For keep ~ing, we usually use the verb 続ける which means to continue, to keep, etc.
e.g.
食べる＋続ける＝食べ続ける
勉強する＋続ける＝勉強し続ける

Depending on the context, other expression could be more appropriate than ～続ける.
～てばかりいる for example, which means doing something all the time.
食べてばかりいる
勉強してばかりいる

 

[Rei Yahya]

Thanks Undrentide! That really helped. I have faint recollections of reading about that ~tsuzukeru. And I'm guessing tsuzukeru is conjugated as an ichidan to add different meanings.

彼は寿司だけ食べ続けた。He kept eating sushi.
彼女は勉強し続けられます。She keeps being able to study.

 

[undrentide]

彼女は勉強し続けられます。She keeps being able to study.

Sorry but I do not really understand the meaning of the English sentence.
The sentence in Japanese means "She's able to keep studying" (she's in the situation that she can keep studying) though it sounds a bit awkward...

 

[Mike Cash]

It's awkward in English too.

 

[Rei Yahya]

Sorry but I do not really understand the meaning of the English sentence.
The sentence in Japanese means "She's able to keep studying" (she's in the situation that she can keep studying) though it sounds a bit awkward...

That's a better and less awkward way to say it. I like to try to cover all my bases though with conjugations and their nuances.