PERFECTIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action

Synonyms:

perfective; perfective aspect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("perfective" is a kind of...):

aspect (the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb)

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

perfect; perfect tense; perfective; perfective tense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("perfective" is a kind of...):

tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perfective"):

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)