However, perfective should not be confused with tense—perfective aspect can apply to events in the past, present, or future. The perfective is often thought...

linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time. For instance, perfective aspect is used...

the past, present or future. Aspect—the extension of the state or action in time, that is, whether it is unitary (perfective), continuous (imperfective)...

languages. The perfect can be denoted by the glossing abbreviation PERF or PRF. It should not be confused with the perfective aspect (PFV), which refers...

(/ˈeɪərɪst/ AY-ər-ist; abbreviated AOR) verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events, similar to a preterite. Ancient Greek grammar...

distinct aspects for one or more of its various roles, such as progressive, habitual, and iterative aspects. The imperfective contrasts with the perfective aspect...

general, it combines the perfective aspect (event viewed as a single whole; it is not to be confused with the similarly named perfect) with the past tense...

adjectival participle, which is a combination of the verb's perfective participle and the perfective participle of the verb honā (to be), which is huā. The...

this form, which has perfective aspect rather than perfect aspect. The French simple past form, which also conveys perfective aspect, is analogous to the...

normally denote a single action (perfective aspect), as in Brutus killed Caesar, a repeated action (habitual aspect), as in I go to school, or a relatively...

imperfective aspect, while other verb forms (the Latin perfect, and the French passé composé or passé simple) are used for past time reference with perfective aspect...

verb can be formed from the perfective one by modification of the stem or ending. Suppletion also plays a small role. Perfective verbs generally cannot be...

Tongan, and Dakota, the future tense is used. Biblical Hebrew uses the perfective aspect.[citation needed] In Japanese, an imperfective clause with the wa...

unambiguously understood as perfective. Compare the following two sentences, each with the intransitive verb bajtʼ ("go"), the first perfective and the second imperfective:...

PIE. Perfective and stative verbs were effectively tenseless, or indifferent to time. The perfective ("aorist") and imperfective ("present") aspect classes...

verb is perfective. With a few exceptions, each Slavic verb is either perfective or imperfective. Most verbs form canonical pairs of one perfective and one...

ending -nu is the general today past attainative perfective, found with all numbers in the perfective except the singular active, where -ma is found. Depending...

book' Perfective constructions with certain VV (verb-verb) complexes do not employ ergative case marking (seeː light verbs in Hindi-Urdu). In perfective constructions...

слышав "without ever hearing") Verb: услышать [ʊˈsɫɨ.ʂɐtʲ] (to hear, perfective aspect) Past active: услышавший [ʊˈsɫɨ.ʂɐf.ʂɨ̞j] "who has heard" Past passive:...

languages, in Slavic languages tense is independent of aspect, with imperfective and perfective aspects being indicated instead by means of prefixes, stem...

forming sub-aspects that combine the nuance of two aspects. The auxiliary rêhnā (to stay) gives a nuance of continuity of the perfective state, jānā (to...

subjunctive forms. Perfective aspect in Hindi-Urdu requires the perfective past forms of the copula rêhnā (to stay) to form the perfective (future) subjunctive...

subjunctive and the second, the perfective subjunctive which superficially has the same form as the perfective aspect forms of verbs but still expresses...

glide y is inserted in perfective participles between prohibited vowel clusters. It is historically the remnant of the old perfective marker. The clusters...

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

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

exhibit split ergativity, which is formed in the perfective aspect only, whereas the imperfective aspect is nominative-accusative. Some dialects would only...

four tense-aspect combinations: simple present, simple past, perfect (present + perfective aspect) and pluperfect (past + perfective aspect). No morphological...

function is to mark different tenses and aspects, including the perfective, imperfective, and progressive aspects. These speech particles "form a link between...

similar to the perfective aspect, and one can find descriptions such as "roughly perfective–imperfective". However, lexical pairs of perfective and imperfective...