PERFECTIVE
Dictionary entry overview: What does perfective mean?
• PERFECTIVE (noun)
The noun PERFECTIVE has 2 senses:
1. a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
2. the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action
Familiarity information: PERFECTIVE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PERFECTIVE (noun)
Meaning:
A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
perfect; perfect tense; perfective; perfective tense
Hypernyms ("perfective" is a kind of...):
tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perfective"):
present perfect; present perfect tense (a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present)
past perfect; past perfect tense; pluperfect; pluperfect tense (a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past)
future perfect; future perfect tense (a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future)
Meaning:
The aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
perfective aspect; perfective
Hypernyms ("perfective" is a kind of...):
aspect (the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb)
