imperfective aspect
Noun
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Noun
imperfective aspect (uncountable)
- (grammar) A feature of a verb which denotes that its action or condition does not have a fixed temporal boundary, but is habitual, unfinished, continuous, repetitive or in progress.
- 2007, Almut Hintze, A Zoroastrian Liturgy: The Worship in Seven Chapters (Yasna 35—41), Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page 240 ↗,
- If the root meaning is iterative or durative, such as 'to go', the verb belongs to the imperfective aspect and forms a root present.
- 2012, David Holton, Peter Mackridge, Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Vassilios Spyropoulos (reviser), Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2nd Edition, page 286 ↗,
- The imperfective aspect in Greek presents the action or state expressed by the verb either as a single but continuous event (progressively) or as a repetitive or habitual one.
- 2012, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, A Grammar of Wandala, Walter De Gruyter (De Gruyter Mouton), page 149 ↗,
- Subject pronouns precede the simple form of the verb and the reduplicated form of the verb in the imperfective aspect.
- 2007, Almut Hintze, A Zoroastrian Liturgy: The Worship in Seven Chapters (Yasna 35—41), Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page 240 ↗,
- French: imperfectif
- German: Imperfektum
- Italian: imperfetto
- Portuguese: imperfectivo
- Russian: несоверше́нный вид
- Spanish: imperfecto
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