Definition of perfective in English:
perfective
adjective pəˈfɛktɪvpərˈfɛktɪv
Grammar Denoting or relating to an aspect of verbs in Slavic languages that expresses completed action.
The opposite of imperfective
Example sentencesExamples
- We show that these traditional models of perfective aspect cannot account for the aspectual system of Thai.
- One approach to these complex verb forms might be to analyse exponents of progressive and perfective aspect (be and have) as modifiers of the bare verb.
- It has something that is similar, but it is really a distinction between imperfective and perfective aspect.
- The cognitive origin is taken to be the basic linguistic distinction between imperfective and perfective aspects of verbs, which describe uncompleted and completed actions.
- A solid piece of research that draws theoretically interesting conclusions about the semantics of the perfective aspect of Old Church Slavonian will have people questioning the wisdom of financing academia with taxpayers' money.
noun pəˈfɛktɪvpərˈfɛktɪv
the perfectiveGrammar The perfective aspect.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the Slavonic languages, the perfective and imperfective are signalled by inflections on the verb, the perfective denoting the completion of the activity and the imperfective its non-completion.
Definition of perfective in US English:
perfective
adjectivepərˈfektivpərˈfɛktɪv
Grammar Denoting or relating to an aspect of verbs in Slavic languages that expresses completed action.
The opposite of imperfective
Example sentencesExamples
- It has something that is similar, but it is really a distinction between imperfective and perfective aspect.
- A solid piece of research that draws theoretically interesting conclusions about the semantics of the perfective aspect of Old Church Slavonian will have people questioning the wisdom of financing academia with taxpayers' money.
- The cognitive origin is taken to be the basic linguistic distinction between imperfective and perfective aspects of verbs, which describe uncompleted and completed actions.
- We show that these traditional models of perfective aspect cannot account for the aspectual system of Thai.
- One approach to these complex verb forms might be to analyse exponents of progressive and perfective aspect (be and have) as modifiers of the bare verb.
nounpərˈfektivpərˈfɛktɪv
Grammar 1A perfective form of a verb.
- 1.1the perfective The perfective aspect.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the Slavonic languages, the perfective and imperfective are signalled by inflections on the verb, the perfective denoting the completion of the activity and the imperfective its non-completion.