| NOUN | imperfective | imperfectives | |
| SYNO | imperfective | imperfective aspect |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The interfix "-yw-" used to form many frequentative verbs has a different function for prefixed perfective verbs: it serves to create their imperfective equivalents.
- Misantla Totonac distinguishes two aspectual categories: the imperfective and the perfective.
- In Tigrinya the bare imperfective is used mainly for the habitual present: ኩሉ መዓልቲ መስኮት ይሰብር "kullu mä‘alti mäskot yǝsäbbǝr" 'he breaks a window every day'.
- The "imperfective" (prefix "Ø-") expresses incomplete action, is used in instrumental marking, descriptions of static situations and to express irrealis mood.
- Plungian and von der Auwera divide discontinuous past tenses into imperfective and perfective.
- Fake imperfective aspect is demonstrated by the two Modern Greek sentences below.
- While in Semitic languages tripartite non-past/past imperfective/past perfective systems similar to those of most Indo-European languages are found, in the rest of Africa past tenses have very different forms from those found in European languages.
- These are verbs whose imperfective and perfective stems differ as well as their present and past stems.
- English has neither a simple perfective nor imperfective aspect; see imperfective for some basic English equivalents of this distinction.
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