The imperfective (abbreviated NPFV, IPFV, or more ambiguously IMPV) is a grammatical aspect used to describe ongoing, habitual, repeated, or similar semantic...

reference to any flow of time during the event ("I helped him"). Imperfective aspect is used for situations conceived as existing continuously or habitually...

Polish perfective aspect is translated into English as a simple tense and the imperfective as a continuous; for example the imperfective oglądałem is translated...

the imperfective aspect is fused with the past tense in a form traditionally called the imperfect. Other languages with distinct past imperfectives include...

("to be") in progress at a specific time: they are non-habitual, imperfective aspects. In the grammars of many languages the two terms are used interchangeably...

The imperfect (abbreviated IMPERF) is a verb form that combines past tense (reference to a past time) and imperfective aspect (reference to a continuing...

Slavic verb is either perfective or imperfective. Most verbs form canonical pairs of one perfective and one imperfective verb with generally the same meaning...

the morning" as "Enjoh is an early bird". The habitual aspect is a type of imperfective aspect, which does not depict an event as a single entity viewed...

(past imperfective) and general perfective. The aorist may be used with the imperfective to produce a compound perfective–imperfective aspect. The aorist...

information. In Latin and French, for example, the imperfect denotes past time in combination with imperfective aspect, while other verb forms (the Latin perfect...

empiric perfect aspect. Generally, though, it is one example of imperfective aspect, which does not view an event as a single entity viewed only as a...

aspect-wise, it was an imperfective root, and thus formed an imperfective root verb *h₁és-ti, rather than a stative verb. In early PIE, the aspect system...

(future, present, past, and future-of-the-past), or into two aspects (perfective and imperfective). The three non-finite moods are the infinitive, past participle...

Polish, counterfactuals can have either perfective or imperfective aspect. Fake imperfective aspect is demonstrated by the two Modern Greek sentences below...

certain aspects and/or tenses in the verb. The Indo-Iranian family, for example, shows a split between the perfective and the imperfective aspect. In Hindustani...

sell) have the imperfective forms kupovat and prodávat. Imperfective verbs may undergo further morphology to make other imperfective verbs (iterative...

saw the car") imperfective aspect, in which the action is viewed as ongoing; in some languages a verb could express imperfective aspect more narrowly...

singular imperfective aspect, open to interpretation as present tense ("I am what I am"), future ("I shall be what I shall be"), or imperfect ("I used...

some variants (m' tâ gostâ – imperfective of the present with tâ), and irregulars in other variants (m' gostâ – imperfective of the present but without...

up imperfect, imperfect tense, imperfectly, imperfection, or imperfectionist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The imperfect, or past imperfective, is...

person, number and sometimes gender. They also have lexical aspect (perfective and imperfective), voice, nine tenses, three moods, four evidentials and six...

правя [pravja] (to do, imperfective aspect): Present active: правещ [pravešt] Past active aorist: правил [pravil] Past active imperfect: правел [pravel] (only...

Present imperfective base = (present) imperfective stem • Present perfective base: initial-stressed present perfective stem • Past imperfective base: (past...

C1on being the most frequent); they take the imperfective prefix x- but never its auxiliary imperfective marker ya, which is usually present with x- for...

is do vs. did Proto-Indo-European also used reduplication for the imperfective aspect. Ancient Greek preserves this reduplication in the present tense...

the subjunctive and imperative moods and the imperfect indicative, which indicates imperfective aspect. In English the imperative often has the same...

of 2:1 since it has two morphemes. The root vid-/вид- conveys the imperfective aspect meaning, and the inflectional morpheme -yat/-ят inflects for four...

postpositional. Concord is of nominative type in the imperfective aspect but ergative in the perfective aspect. Nouns are declined according to their endings...

aspect and voice; the headword of choice is usually as unmarked as possible, which for many languages may correspond to present tense, imperfective aspect...

forms; imperfective ones are neutral with regard to it and form past imperfective forms. Most Bulgarian verbs can be grouped in perfective-imperfective pairs...