Refer to your dictionary for the use oflos*ballern ‘to start shooting’ (colloquial use)
los*bellen ‘to start barking’
los*brüllen ‘to start shouting/roaring’
los*gehen ‘to start walking, to go off’
los*fahren/loslaufen ‘to set off (by means of a vehicle/on foot)’
los*flitzen ‘to run’
los*heulen ‘to burst out crying’
los*krabbeln ‘to start crawling’
los*kommen ‘to get off (also: to get free)’
los*schicken ‘to send off (to somewhere)’
los*schießen ‘to start shooting’76.4 Continuation of a process
(a) The continuation of a process is often indicated by the separable prefixes weiter- or
fort-. These can also be used as adverbs.Encouraging or ordering someone to carry on doing something:(Machen Sie) Weiter!/Weiter so!
Carry on!/go on!Asking someone (politely) to carry on:Bitte lesen Sie weiter!
Please carry on reading!Asking someone formally:Bitte fahren Sie in Ihrem Vortrag fort.
Please continue with your lecture.Continuing one’s education:Man sollte sich ständig weiterbilden/fortbilden.
One should never stop furthering one’s education.(b) Carrying on an activity can be further emphasized by inserting immer:Er spielte immer weiter.
He played on and on.Gehen Sie immer geradeaus.
Carry on straight ahead. See^48 (pp. 125–8) for comparison of adjectives. See also 76.10a (p. 266), on ‘Repeating
actions and processes’, for further uses of immer and wieder.(c) To indicate that someone is in the process of doing something, use gerade ‘just’
or gerade dabei sein, etw. zu tun ‘to be in the process of doing something’ (see 34.5b):Die Aufnahmen laufen gerade.
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Describing actions/processes