Мы продолжили разговор.

Продолжили is the past tense plural form of продолжить.

• продолжить = to continue / to resume (perfective)
• past tense endings in Russian agree with the subject:
  • masculine singular: продолжил
  • feminine singular: продолжила
  • neuter singular: продолжило
  • plural: продолжили

Because the subject is мы (we), the verb must be plural, so you get продолжили.

The infinitive is продолжить.

This verb is perfective. Its imperfective partner is продолжать.

So the pair is:

• продолжать = to be continuing / to continue in an ongoing sense
• продолжить = to continue / resume as a completed whole action

In this sentence, the speaker uses the perfective form: продолжили.

Russian aspect is one of the biggest things English speakers ask about here.

Продолжили is perfective, which presents the action as a single completed event: we continued/resumed the conversation.

It does not mean that the conversation was finished. It means that the act of taking it up again / moving it forward is viewed as one complete event.

Compare:

• Мы продолжили разговор.
  = We continued/resumed the conversation.
  Focus: the action of continuing happened.

• Мы продолжали разговор.
  = We were continuing the conversation / kept talking.
  Focus: the process, duration, or ongoing action.

So the perfective here is natural if you mean something like then we continued the conversation.

Разговор is in the accusative case because it is the direct object of the verb продолжили.

You continue what?
разговор = conversation

For many inanimate masculine nouns, the accusative singular looks exactly the same as the nominative singular.

So:

• nominative: разговор
• accusative: разговор

That is why the form does not change here.

Russian has no articles like a/an and the.

So разговор can mean:

• a conversation
• the conversation

The exact meaning depends on context.

In this sentence, English naturally translates it as the conversation, but Russian does not need a separate word for that.

Yes, Russian can often leave it out if the meaning is already clear from context:

• Мы продолжили разговор.
• Продолжили разговор.

Both can work.

Because продолжили is a plural past form, it already suggests we or they depending on context. If the speaker wants to make the subject explicit, contrast it with someone else, or simply be clearer, they include мы.

So:

• Мы продолжили разговор. = neutral, explicit we
• Продолжили разговор. = more context-dependent, subject omitted

Because продолжить normally takes a direct object.

So Russian says:

• продолжить разговор = to continue the conversation
• продолжить работу = to continue the work
• продолжить путь = to continue the journey

No preposition is needed.

English speakers sometimes expect something like continue with the conversation, but Russian usually just uses the verb plus the direct object.

Yes, absolutely.

Depending on context, Мы продолжили разговор can be understood as:

• We continued the conversation
• We resumed the conversation

That is because продолжить can describe picking something back up after a pause.

For example, if there was an interruption, English might prefer resumed. If things just kept moving forward, English might prefer continued. Russian can use the same verb in both situations.

These are close, but not identical.

• Мы продолжили разговор.
  = We continued/resumed the conversation.
  The noun разговор is the object.

• Мы продолжили разговаривать.
  = We continued talking.
  Here разговаривать is an infinitive, so the focus is more on the activity of talking.

The first sounds a bit more like the conversation as a whole event/topic.
The second sounds more like the act of speaking kept going.

Both are normal Russian.

Yes. Мы продолжили разговор is a normal, neutral word order:

• Мы = subject
• продолжили = verb
• разговор = object

Russian word order is flexible, but different orders change emphasis.

For example:

• Мы продолжили разговор.
  Neutral: We continued the conversation.

• Разговор мы продолжили.
  Emphasizes the conversation.

• Продолжили мы разговор.
  More marked; could sound literary, contrastive, or context-driven.

So the given sentence is the most straightforward version.

The stress is:

• мы продолжи́ли разгово́р

More specifically:

• продолжи́ли → stress on жи
• разгово́р → stress on the last syllable

A rough pronunciation guide:

• мы ≈ mɨ
• продолжи́ли ≈ prə-dəl-ZHEE-lee
• разгово́р ≈ rəz-gə-VOR

The unstressed vowels are reduced in normal speech, so they do not sound exactly like written o.

In Russian past tense, gender is only shown in the singular.

Compare:

• я продолжил = I continued (male speaker)
• я продолжила = I continued (female speaker)
• оно продолжило = it continued

But in the plural, there is just one form:

• мы продолжили
• они продолжили

So with мы, you do not show gender in the verb form.

Yes. It is completely normal in both spoken and written Russian.

It sounds natural in many contexts, for example:

• after an interruption
• when returning to a previous topic
• in narration
• in formal or informal speech

So it is a very useful everyday pattern: продолжить + direct object

Examples:

• продолжить обсуждение = continue the discussion
• продолжить встречу = continue the meeting
• продолжить разговор = continue the conversation