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Definition of Imperfective
1. Noun. Aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb.
Definition of Imperfective
1. Adjective. of or relating to the imperfective aspect ¹
2. Noun. the imperfective aspect, or a verb having this aspect ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imperfective
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperfective
Literary usage of Imperfective
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"Formation of the Perfect for imperfective Intransitive Verbs. ... Sein was at
first used with intransitive perfective verbs, haben with the imperfective. ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"Accordingly a perfective verb of necessity includes, besides the general verbal
notion, which it has in common with the imperfective verb formed from the ..."
3. History: Chronology 1: Second Edition by Anatoly Fomenko (2007)
"Thus, the imperfective aspect of a verb (praesens) indicates that the action in
question is rather a process that goes through various stages over the ..."
4. Russian reader: accented texts, grammatical and explanatory notes by Paul Jean Marie Boyer, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Speranskiĭ, Leo Tolstoy, Samuel Northrup Harper (1906)
"Note that in the imperfective aspect they preserve the suffix -а- (-я-) in the
stem of the present, even if, in the simple verb, this suffix appears only in ..."
5. General Principles of the Structure of Language by James Byrne (1885)
"The difference is often unexpressed, being involved in different applications,
for many forms are perfective or imperfective, according to difference of ..."
6. Systemization of the Russian Verb by William Henry Lowe (1909)
"(2) The imperfective (N) denotes that the action has not altogether ceased, ...
NB The future of the imperfective is formed with the auxiliary, ..."
7. The English Future: Its Origin and Development by Francis Adelbert Blackburn (1892)
"Whether we should set the date of the beginning of the loss of distinction between
perfective and imperfective verbs as far back as the primitive Teutonic ..."
8. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1904)
"In later English ge- has been lost, chiefly owing to French influence, and the
simple verb compelled to do duty both in the imperfective and perfective ..."
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