Imperfective aspect

The imperfective aspect as a term of linguistics is one of the three aspects of the hypothetical Indo-European root language, which is a part of the verbal paradigm in many languages ​​of the sequence. In contrast to the perfective aspect to describe the verb forms of Imperfektivs unfinished, continued or repeated actions and events. Even non- Indo-European languages ​​such as Caucasian or Arab have complex aspect systems.

In many Indo-European languages, in Greek, to be combined for aspect and tense forms have trained in the verbal morphology; but in the German language is the consciousness that is called as the past tense, past tense or past tense which ( he smoked ), is also unfinished, barely pronounced. The difference in the aspect becomes clear when one compares, for example, the use of the imparfait and passé composé of the French. All Slavic languages ​​share their verbs in finished and unfinished, expressing the perfective and imperfective aspect.

In the modern Greek language, the formal aspect of discrimination is ( versus imperfective aorist ) in the time steps of the preterite ( Paratatikos versus aorist ), and the future tense pronounced. Also in the imperative and subjunctive distinction is made between the two aspects, which extends the aspect of discrimination on part of the present tense. Only a few verbs there is this aspect of difference is not because they always have an unfinished aspect of the importance (his είμαι for example, or χάσκω gape ). The verb stem, with the forms of the imperfective aspect are formed, bears in the Modern Greek grammars different names, such as paratatischer ( παρατατικό ) präsentischer ( ενεστωτικό ) or imperfective ( ατελές ) Pedigree ( θέμα ).

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Aorist · Habituativ / In habitat · · perfective imperfective · · continuative in the perfect

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