perfective tense

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perfective tense - a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)perfect, perfect tense, perfectivetense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of timepresent perfect, present perfect tense - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present; "`I have finished' is an example of the present perfect"past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"future perfect, future perfect tense - a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future; "`I will have finished' is an example of the future perfect"