Examples of 'imperfective' in a sentence

Meaning of "imperfective"

imperfective (adjective) - a grammatical term used in linguistics to describe an aspect of a verb, indicating an ongoing or repeated action without specifying its completion. For example, 'In Russian, the imperfective aspect is used for actions that are not completed.'
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  • Of, relating to or having the properties of the imperfective aspect.
  • The imperfective aspect; a verb having this aspect.

How to use "imperfective" in a sentence

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There is also a periphrastic imperfective future construction.
Only imperfective verbs have an adverbial participle.
It may also indicate an imperfective or habitual aspect.
Only imperfective verbs have a verbal noun.
This is the essence of the imperfective aspect.
Only imperfective verbs have a present active participle.
Verbs without a prefix are usually imperfective.
Imperfective aspect is used to show habitual or progressive events.
It may be more precisely called past imperfective.
The imperfective aspect and the perfective aspect.
English is an example of a language with no general imperfective.
Both imperfective and perfective verbs have past imperfect.
The same as root athematic imperfective verbs.
Imperfective verbs are progressive or habitual.
This is often called perfective and imperfective.

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Verbs are of imperfective or perfective aspect.
Croatian verbs have perfective and imperfective aspect.
Imperfective verbs need an auxiliary to make their future tense.
It was used with imperfective verbs.
A markedness relationship is one between the perfective and imperfective.
The imperfective is used for events that are ongoing or not complete.
The present tense can be expressed in imperfective verbs only.
The imperfective aspect depicts an action that is still going or underway.
In this verb there is no distinction between perfective and imperfective.
Both imperfective and perfective verbs have such tense there is no difference in their conjugation.
The auxiliary verbs can be both perfective and imperfective.
The distinction between perfective and imperfective is more important in some languages than others.
The state of being in perfective aspect or the imperfective aspect.
The aspectual opposition between imperfective and perfective verbs remains semantic in most verbal forms.
Usage of the perfective aspect follows the same pattern as the imperfective aspect.
Finite Catalan verbs have an imperfective or perfective aspect.
Another important distinction in Chewa is between perfective and imperfective aspect.
Perfective and imperfective are the aspects used in Bosnian.
This is the key distinction between the imperfective and perfective.
Imperfective aspect Perfective aspect.
My question here has to do with the meaning of the imperfective in Czech.
The Imperfective and the Past Imperfective are marked for initiation.
The present tense of the Macedonian language is made of the imperfective verbs.
How to use imperfective aspect and perfective aspect?
The Present Simple tense can be both perfective and imperfective in aspect.
The imperfective indicates an event / action that has begun but remains incomplete.
Basics of the Perfective and Imperfective aspects.
Imperfective and perfective verbs typically use the imperfect and aorist verbal л-forms, respectively.
Semantically, most of these verbs are characterized by an imperfective value.
The latter is more insisting, since the imperfective is the more immediate construction.
There are two present active participles, which are used with imperfective verbs.
All third person imperfective forms take the enclitic object marker - l - before the object suffix.
While doing this you transform it into imperfective present,.
Imperfective aspect: John was reading the book.
In morphology, the future tense of imperfective verbs was fixed.

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