fortführende

Fortführende is a German attributive participial adjective derived from the verb fortführen, meaning to continue or carry on. The term describes something that continues a course, action, or policy that has already been started. It is commonly used in formal or bureaucratic and planning contexts, such as politics, administration, business, and project management.

As an adjective, fortführende inflects like other adjectives in German and agrees with the noun it modifies in gender, number, and case. Typical collocations include fortführende Maßnahme (continuing measure), fortführende Gespräche (ongoing talks), fortführende Strategie (continuing strategy), and fortführende Linie (continuing/ongoing line). It is usually used in a descriptive, evaluative, or planning context to signal that a given action or approach is intended to be a continuation of prior work.

Differences from related terms exist: fortlaufend emphasizes ongoing duration without necessarily implying a continuation of a specific prior path; weiterführend stresses moving forward or advancing to new stages beyond what has been established. Fortführende thus locates its sense in maintaining and extending an already initiated course rather than simply continuing in time or pushing toward new levels.

Etymology and register: the form combines fortführen (to continue) with the present participle suffix -end, and it is typically not capitalized unless it begins a sentence. In usage, fortführende tends to appear in formal texts, reports, plans, and analyses that describe planned or realized continuations of previous work.