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perfective (aspect)

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The "suffix conjugation" takes suffixes indicating the person, number and gender of the subject, and normally indicates past tense (or alternatively, perfective aspect). en.wikipedia.org

The past contrasts perfective and imperfective aspect, and some verbs retain a perfective-imperfective contrast in the present. en.wikipedia.org

It should not be confused with the perfective aspect, which refers to the viewing of an action as a single (but not necessarily prior) event. en.wikipedia.org

There are four non-finite verb forms: infinitive, passive infinitive, and the two participles perfective/past participle and imperfective/present participle. en.wikipedia.org

The perfective takes a prefixed "k-"; the imperfective, a prefixed "a(n)-". en.wikipedia.org

As an unmarked verb, it can refer both to present and to perfective. en.wikipedia.org

Both imperfective and perfective verbs have such tense (there is no difference in their conjugation). en.wikipedia.org

For imperfective verbs, it is formed analytically, for perfective verbs it is identical with the present tense. en.wikipedia.org

The perfective aspect of the past is used when the speech refers to past situations that were finished, or complete. en.wikipedia.org

However, on the contrary of regular verbs, when the base form is used alone it represents the imperfective aspect and not the perfective aspect. en.wikipedia.org

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