imperfective
adj/ˌɪmpɚˈfɛktɪv/US
Definitions
Of, relating to or having the properties of the imperfective aspect.
- The former is the basic imperfective subjunctive, while the latter is prominent or intensified.[…]While the present subjunctive is imperfective in aspect, the perfect subjunctive is imperfective in aspect and spatially proximate.
- Consider, then, the result of applying these tense morphemes to a perfective or an imperfective verb.
The imperfective aspect
The imperfective aspect; a verb having this aspect.
- Examples of past imperfectives are shown in (42).
- These putative indeterminate imperfectives are innovative in form precisely because they add a manner meaning to the range of lexical meanings available to Proto-Slavic motion verbs.
- Past imperfectives are also unproblematic because imperfectives are mass-like in nature, hence contractible.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for imperfective. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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