連続

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: The spelling is 連続, read れんぞく, and it combines 連, meaning link, with 続, meaning continue.
• Basic usage: The basic sense of 連続 is events or states continuing without a break or occurrences of the same kind following one another.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Consecutive occasions and continuous viewing
  • Both examples use the form 連続. 三日連続 marks the same event on three consecutive days, while 連続して describes viewing photographs in an unbroken sequence.
• Repeated rain and sequential photographs
  • 三日連続で同じ時間に雨が降った。 — It rained at the same time for three consecutive days.
  • 写真を連続して見ると鳥の動きが分かる。 — Viewing the photographs in sequence shows the bird's movement.