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 Translation for 'imperfective' from English to Russian
NOUN   imperfective | imperfectives
SYNO imperfective | imperfective aspect
линг.
несовершенный вид {м}
imperfective aspect <IPFV aspect, IMPV aspect>
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Translation for 'imperfective' from English to Russian

imperfective aspect <IPFV aspect, IMPV aspect>
несовершенный вид {м}линг.
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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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