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perfective tense

DEFINITIONS OF: perfective tense

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n a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

Synonyms:
perfect, perfect tense, perfective
Types:
present perfect, present perfect tense
a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present
past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense
a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
future perfect, future perfect tense
a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future
Type of:
tense
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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