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Meaning of "perfective" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PERFECTIVE

perfective  [pəˈfɛktɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERFECTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Perfective is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PERFECTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Perfective aspect

The perfective aspect, sometimes called the aoristic aspect, is a grammatical aspect used to describe an action viewed as a simple whole—a unit without interior composition. The perfective aspect is equivalent to the aspectual component of past perfective forms variously called "aorist", "preterite", and "simple past". Although the essence of the perfective is an event seen as a whole, most languages which have a perfective use it for various similar semantic roles, such as momentary events and the onsets or completions of events, all of which are single points in time and thus have no internal structure. Other languages instead have separate momentane, inchoative, or cessative aspects for those roles, with or without a general perfective. The perfective aspect is distinguished from the imperfective aspect, which presents an event as having internal structure, and from the prospective aspect, which describes impending or anticipated action. Aspects such as the perfective should not be confused with tense; perfective aspect can apply to events situated in the past, present, or future.

Definition of perfective in the English dictionary

The definition of perfective in the dictionary is tending to perfect. Other definition of perfective is denoting an aspect of verbs in some languages, including English, used to express that the action or event described by the verb is or was completed: I lived in London for ten years is perfective; I have lived in London for ten years is imperfective, since the implication is that I still live in London.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERFECTIVE


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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERFECTIVE

perfectation
perfecter
perfecti
perfectibilian
perfectibilism
perfectibilist
perfectibility
perfectible
perfection
perfectionate
perfectionism
perfectionist
perfectionistic
perfectively
perfectiveness
perfectivity
perfectly
perfectness
perfecto
perfector

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERFECTIVE

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 perfective in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «perfective» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERFECTIVE

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

Translator English - Chinese

完成式
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

perfectivo
570 millions of speakers

English

perfective
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

साधक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متحسن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

совершенного
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

perfective
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

perfective
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

perfectif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sempurna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

perfektiv
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

完了相
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

완결을
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perfective
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hoàn bị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குறைவின்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परिपूर्ण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tamamlanma belirten
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

perfettivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dokonany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

досконалого
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

perfectiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τελειοποιητικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

perfektief
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

perfective
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

perfective
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of perfective

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERFECTIVE»

The term «perfective» is quite widely used and occupies the 50.841 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERFECTIVE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERFECTIVE»

Discover the use of perfective in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to perfective and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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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
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Modality, Futurity and Dependent Tense: The Semantics of the ...
perfective/imperfective opposition. Though the perfective is used to express the marked meaning of completion, the imperfective, because it is unmarked for completion, is not ruled out and the example in (2) is consistent with the grammar .
Andjelka Gina Bulatovic, 2008
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Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond
non-marked, basic verb stem in the perfective affirmative paradigm and mark the im- perfective verb stem by derivation. In this case, the semantics of perfectivity cannot be attributed to the basic stem as such. It carries this meaning only in ...
Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann, Georg Ziegelmeyer, 2009
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Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and ...
Perfective, present, and future Since the present tense is essentially used to describe, rather than to narrate, it is essentially imperfective, either continuous or habitual, and not perfective. In this section we shall look at perfective presents in  ...
Bernard Comrie, 1976
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A Primer of Modern Standard Hindi
11.1 The Perfective of Transitive Verbs As was mentioned in the previous chapter , the use of the perfective aspect with intransitive verbs in Hindi differs from the use of the aspect with transitive verbs. These differences appear not in the ...
Michael C. Shapiro, 1989
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An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
As the names suggest, the perfective conjugation is more specialized in meaning than the non-perfective conjugation. The suffix form of the verb announces that a certain category (perfectivity) is relevant, while the prefix form does not invoke ...
Bruce K. Waltke, Michael Patrick O'Connor, 1990
7
A Semantic and Pragmatic Model of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
Many descriptions of perfective aspect are provocatively similar to the descriptions of telicity. For example, the perfective is characterized as RESULTATIVE, BOUNDED (Li and Thompson 1981), CONCLUSIVE, or COMPLETE, contrasting with ...
Mari Broman Olsen, 1997
8
Systems Analysis and Design
During system operation, changes in user activity or data patterns can cause a decline in efficiency, and perfective maintenance ... When users are concerned about performance, you should determine if a perfective maintenance project could ...
Gary Shelly, Harry J. Rosenblatt, 2011
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The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the ...
(2) Dahl's questionnaire revealed that the more common sense of 'perfective' is that associated with the inflectional perfective, which typically denotes "a single event, seen as an unanalyzed whole . . . located in the past" (Dahl 1985: 78).
Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca, 1994
10
Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics
7.5.6 'Perfective' v. ' i mperfective ' The distinction between the perfective and the imperfective in Russian may be illustrated by means of the two sentences (i) Ja procital roman, and (ii) Ja cital roman. Although each of these can be translated ...
John Lyons, 1968

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERFECTIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term perfective is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Restoring pride in way Appalachians speak
FADING FEATURES The perfective “done”: Used to show an action is complete (“I done walked the dog“), the perfective done has become rare ... «Fredericksburg.com, Jul 15»
2
Enduring and declining speech features in West Virginia
The perfective "done": Used to show an action is complete ("I done walked the dog"), the perfective done has become rare in West Virginia. «Long Beach Press Telegram, Jul 15»
3
Polymer Pistol Showdown: Glock 17 vs. Canik TP9SA
Either which one feels best to the perfective shooter, or how much gun-specific gear they intend to purchase. Shooters who like their dedicated ... «Handguns, Jun 15»
4
Hatch: Passage of National Defense Authorization Act Includes …
... sustaining mission-capable weapon systems requires a definition that also includes preventive, adaptive, perfective, and system-integration ... «Utah Policy, Jun 15»
5
Managing Technical Debt Using Total Cost of Ownership
... not only fix bugs during this phase (corrective and preventative maintenance), but are also adding new functionality (perfective maintenance). «InfoQ.com, Jun 15»
6
'Angry Birds' Developer Rovio Demo'ing VR Version of Their Mobile …
Shown running on Samsung's Gear VR headset, Angry Birds VR appears to shift the franchise's usual side-perfective to a view from behind the ... «Road to VR, May 15»
7
Today's Aquinas: God Always Understands
For in the order of potencies and acts, what is first is always potential with respect to what follows, and what is last is perfective. “First act” and ... «Patheos, Mar 15»
8
'The Challenge: Battle of the Exes 2' Reunion - 'Real World' Stars …
... with cast mate Nia speaking out in the clip saying that with Diem's passing she feels that it has put life into perfective for all the cast members. «Mstarz, Mar 15»
9
3 Ways To Get The Winter Off Your Skin
Perfective Ceuticals Divine Brightening Mask. The only thing worse than winter's bitter cold is the dryness that your skin feels afterward. You want to replenish ... «Westchester Magazine, Mar 15»
10
FEMA increases flood plain area in Flora
The town will pay a one-time fee of $1,450 to Perfective Web Design to change over its web hosting to the Flora company. “Our updated ... «Carroll County Comet, Mar 15»

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