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perfective ADJ

perfective

ميال إلى الكمال

perfective

perfective

آخذ في التحسن

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

The meaning is identical or similar in each case, but differs in that perfective verbs are seen as completed and imperfective verbs as ongoing. en.wikipedia.org

Both imperfective and perfective verbs have past imperfect. en.wikipedia.org

It exists only for transitive verbs, and almost only if they are perfective. en.wikipedia.org

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

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

Many phrases can not be used in the perfective in this way, as the referent is as yet incomplete. en.wikipedia.org

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

The perfective, though displaying a number of irregularities and morphophonemic adjustments, is the simplest, being just the verb stem followed by the agreement vowel. en.wikipedia.org

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

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