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Meaning of "imperfective" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMPERFECTIVE

imperfective  [ˌɪmpəˈfɛktɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMPERFECTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Imperfective can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IMPERFECTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Imperfective aspect

The imperfective is a grammatical aspect used to describe a situation viewed with interior composition. The imperfective is used in language to describe ongoing, habitual, repeated, or similar semantic roles, whether that situation occurs in the past, present, or future. Although many languages have a general imperfective, others have distinct aspects for one or more of its various roles, such as progressive, habitual, and iterative aspects.

Definition of imperfective in the English dictionary

The definition of imperfective in the dictionary is the imperfective aspect of a verb. Other definition of imperfective is a verb in this aspect.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMPERFECTIVE


affective
əˈfɛktɪv
collective
kəˈlɛktɪv
defective
dɪˈfɛktɪv
detective
dɪˈtɛktɪv
directive
dɪˈrɛktɪv
effective
ɪˈfɛktɪv
ineffective
ˌɪnɪˈfɛktɪv
infective
ɪnˈfɛktɪv
noneffective
ˌnɒnɪˈfɛktɪv
objective
əbˈdʒɛktɪv
perfective
pəˈfɛktɪv
perspective
pəˈspɛktɪv
prospective
prəˈspɛktɪv
protective
prəˈtɛktɪv
refective
rɪˈfɛktɪv
reflective
rɪˈflɛktɪv
respective
rɪˈspɛktɪv
selective
sɪˈlɛktɪv
subjective
səbˈdʒɛktɪv
supereffective
ˌsuːpərɪˈfɛktɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMPERFECTIVE

imperceptively
imperceptiveness
imperceptivity
impercipience
imperf.
imperfect
imperfect competition
imperfect contrition
imperfect market
imperfection
imperfectively
imperfectly
imperfectness
imperforate
imperforation
imperia
imperial
imperial gallon
imperial preference
imperial system

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMPERFECTIVE

active
addictive
alternative
attractive
constrictive
constructive
corrective
cost-effective
destructive
distinctive
inactive
interactive
irrespective
predictive
proactive
productive
radioactive
reactive
reproductive
restrictive
seductive

Synonyms and antonyms of imperfective in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «imperfective» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMPERFECTIVE

Find out the translation of imperfective to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of imperfective from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «imperfective» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

未完成式
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

imperfectivo
570 millions of speakers

English

imperfective
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपूर्ण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

imperfective
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несовершенного
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imperfective
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

imperfective
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

non accompli
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak sempurna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

imperfective
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

未完了相
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

미완료
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Imperfective
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không trọn vẹn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

imperfective
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपरिपक्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bitmemişlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

imperfettivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niedokonany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

недосконалого
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

imperfective
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ατελής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onvoltooid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

imperfective
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Imperfektiv
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of imperfective

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPERFECTIVE»

The term «imperfective» is normally little used and occupies the 109.161 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPERFECTIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «imperfective» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «imperfective» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about imperfective

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPERFECTIVE»

Discover the use of imperfective in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to imperfective and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Intensive Bulgarian: A Textbook and Reference Grammar
Certain imperfective verbs denote an action which is so general and basic that it is by nature perceived as unbounded: for this reason, these "simplex imperfectives" have no perfective partners. One adds the idea of boundedness to such verbs ...
Ronelle Alexander, 2000
2
Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and ...
between Perfective (Aorist) and Imperfective (Present) stems, with the Perfective normally having past time reference, and the Imperfective having present time reference. In section 6.4 we noted that in the Past Tense in Russian, the Perfective ...
Bernard Comrie, 1976
3
Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe
This paper proposes a description of the perfective and the imperfective aspects based on the type/token distinction. It takes as its point of departure some uses of the Imperfective which have sometimes been treated as exceptions to the rules ...
Östen Dahl, 2000
4
Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-based Study
Distribution of imperfective aspect markers relatively low frequency of these markers in narrative texts. Nevertheless, we can find an answer in the Chinese imperfective marker -zhe, which accounts for 88% of the 3,836 instances of ...
Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery, 2004
5
Tense and Aspect in Modern Colloquial Japanese
However, such associations may not be exactly in accord with what is actually meant by the terms 'perfective' and 'imperfective.' Those terms appear to have been interpreted differently by various grannnarians. Mikami (1972, p. 209), for ...
Matsuo Soga, 2007
6
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
§4 Perfective and imperfective interpretations 43 The preterite and the perfect are different kinds of past tense: note that both She went home and She has gone home locate her going home in past time. Before we begin our survey of the four  ...
Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, 2005
7
The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study of ...
Marked forms of the imperfective represent indicative and future moods. The morphologically unmarked form of the imperfective serves as a subjunctive mood , with non-indicative, potential, hortative, or optative meaning, and also functions as ...
Kristen Brustad, 2000
8
Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar
This internal perspective, known as imperfective aspect, is also the typical viewpoint for the presentation of static situations (states). At another level, imperfective forms are used for presenting any kind of situation (event or state) as occurring ...
Aslı Göksel, Celia Kerslake, 2005
9
Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture ...
20.1 Definitions The perfective and imperfective are two verb forms of the sÿm.f belonging to the suffix conjugation (§§ 18.1, 19.3). They look like the subjunctive in many verb classes, but they have different uses and different meanings than ...
James P. Allen, 2010
10
Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality
The category of interest here is the past imperfective, which can either co-occur with realis or irrealis marking on the medial clause. An imperfective past with realis (default) marking in the medial clause expresses enduring situations (static  ...
Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMPERFECTIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term imperfective is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'The Thing Is to Be Light as Air': An Interview with Mai Al-Nakib
Wouldn't the present tense be a better way to capture this, or to say it more pedantically, wouldn't the imperfective aspect be more fitting for ... «Jadaliyya, Feb 15»
2
Alex Ovechkin Dances Onstage in Moscow (GIF)
Я терпеть не могу (invert the word order and use imperfective verb for this idiom–вытерпеть is “to have lived through”, as in, “he lived through ... «Russian Machine Never Breaks, Jun 14»
3
The SBL 2013 “Perfect Storm” Debate about the Perfect Tense to be …
... more properly belong to aktionsart, instead arguing that the perfect tense conveys imperfective aspect (i.e., the present tense on steroids). «Patheos, Apr 14»
4
Bulgarian for Beginners
Each verbal stem denotes either perfective or imperfective aspect. There is no voice inflection. Voice distinctions are generally conveyed by lexical and syntactic ... «Language Magazine, Feb 14»
5
My Resolutions for 2014
I'm starting with я не могу тебя забыть (I can't — imperfective — forget you — perfective) and я не смогу тебя забыть (I will not — perfective ... «The Moscow Times, Jan 14»
6
The Perfect Introduction to the Perfect Tense Debate
Con Campbell believes that the perfect tense form is imperfective and signifies a heightened sense of proximity. Now this can seem very ... «Patheos, Jan 14»
7
Breaking and Entering in the “Chinese Room”
... education was extremely formal and revolved largely around memorizing declensions of nouns and adjectives and perfective and imperfective forms of verbs. «Asia Society, Jan 13»
8
Why did Milton write his theology in Latin?
However, Latin can't convey the difference between perfective and imperfective aspect (between “I write” and “I am writing”). Unlike Greek or ... «OUPblog, Sep 12»
9
A lament for the death of the English language
In Standard British English, "I was sitting" is correct for the past imperfective of "I sit"; in other dialects, "I was sat" is perfectly correct. Whatever ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 12»
10
'Avatar' theme park coming to Disney World
... up his perfective and imperfective Na'vi verbs. And also the part where you have to plug your hair into the rollercoasters to make them work.". «Mother Nature Network, Sep 11»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Imperfective [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/imperfective>. May 2024 ».
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