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Imperfective

//ˌɪmpɚˈfɛktɪv// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to or having the properties of the imperfective aspect. not-comparable

    "In the last chapter, we observed the rise of an imperfective marker in English, the Progressive, as the dominant and surviving member of a wider paradigm of imperfective aspectual functions in Old English, but which were no longer marked in the same way in later stages of the history of English."

Noun
  1. 1
    The imperfective aspect; a verb having this aspect.

    "Examples of past imperfectives are shown in (42)."

  2. 2
    aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb wordnet

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