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Perfective   Listen
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Perfective  adj.  
1.
Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. "A perfective alteration." "Actions perfective of their natures."
2.
(Gram.) Denoting an aspect of verbs which indicates completion of an action, and is sometimes explicitly marked in verbal inflection, as in the Russian language; as, the perfective form of a verb. The use of a perfective form rather than the simple past indicates reference to a completed event, rather than to a process that took place in the past.






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"Perfective" Quotes from Famous Books



... civilization and the Paddies. There we are, twelve miles out from Boston, in a country villa so convenient that every part of it might almost do its own work,—everything arranged in the most convenient, contiguous, self-adjusting, self-acting, patent-right, perfective manner,—and yet, I tell you, Marianne will die of that house. It will yet be recorded on her tombstone, 'Died of conveniences.' For myself, what I languish for is a log cabin, with a bed in one corner, a trundle-bed underneath for the children, a fire-place only six feet off, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various



Words linked to "Perfective" :   past perfect tense, aspect, tense, perfect tense, past perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, perfective tense, perfective aspect, present perfect, pluperfect tense, perfect, present perfect tense, future perfect tense



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