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Definition of Perfective
1. Noun. A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect).
Generic synonyms: Tense
Specialized synonyms: Present Perfect, Present Perfect Tense, Past Perfect, Past Perfect Tense, Pluperfect, Pluperfect Tense, Future Perfect, Future Perfect Tense
2. Noun. The aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action.
Definition of Perfective
1. a. Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; -- usually followed by of.
Definition of Perfective
1. Adjective. (grammar) of, or relative to the perfect tense or perfective aspect. ¹
2. Noun. (grammar) a perfective verb form ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perfective
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfective
Literary usage of Perfective
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"For the verb ïr-, ï'9- 'to sit, remain', the perfective-continuative stem ....
the perfective-continuative aspect and then in the simplex: 118.31-2 'ay ïr, ..."
2. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"As a perfective particle it designated the action as reaching the point of
completion and was as such at least not less in place with present verbs than ..."
3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"The perfective kind of action, called also resultative, etc. ... Accordingly a
perfective verb of necessity includes, besides the general verbal notion, ..."
4. A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, the Obligations of by Samuel Clarke, Joseph Butler (1823)
"For what can be more agreeable to the light of na- The pro- ture, and more
evidently perfective of it, than to have £°^nby those duties, which nature hints ..."
5. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"In case of many very common verbs the ingressive perfective idea is ...
perfective force is in most cases expressed by the use of a prefix or particle. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"When perfective and durative verbs are formed from the same root, the perfective
are distinguished from the durative forms (a) by having a preposition ..."
7. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"5 Indeed, if this were most natural to the human soul, and most perfective of
it, to continue separate from all body, then doubtless, (as Origen implied) ..."
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