imperfective in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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If the action marked as imperfective is understood to be in the present tense, it is generally interpreted as an expression of habit.
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The imperfective form of a verb is the same as its dictionary formit is used as the headword, or lemmaand no conjugation needs to be done.
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For imperfective verbs, it is formed analytically, for perfective verbs it is identical with the present tense.
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The perfective and imperfective need not occur together in the same utterance; indeed they more often do not.
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There are four non-finite verb forms: infinitive, passive infinitive, and the two participles perfective/past participle and imperfective/present participle.
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For example, imperfective verbs generally lack a past passive participle, while perfective verbs have no present participles.
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For the imperfective aspect, suffixes are used to indicate the past tense indicative mood, the non-past tense indicative mood, and the subjunctive and imperative moods.
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Both imperfective and perfective verbs have such tense (there is no difference in their conjugation).
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