Definition of Perfectives

1. Noun. (plural of perfective) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perfectives

1. perfective [n] - See also: perfective

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfectives

perfectionistic
perfectionists
perfectionless
perfectionment
perfectionments
perfections
perfectissimate
perfectissimates
perfectitude
perfective
perfective aspect
perfective aspects
perfective tense
perfectively
perfectiveness
perfectives (current term)
perfectivities
perfectivity
perfectivization
perfectly
perfectness
perfectnesses
perfecto
perfector
perfectors
perfectos
perfects
perfervid
perfet
perfidies

Literary usage of Perfectives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"The former class is called effective perfectives, the latter ingressive perfectives. Originally all these forms were present tenses, a present tense form of ..."

2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"... it would be necessary to show that at all events the bulk of these verbs have perfectives corresponding to them in other languages. ..."

3. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"The prefix ge- was the most common means of changing simple, imperfective verbs into perfectives. This was probably its earliest function in connection with ..."

4. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"The prefix ge- was the most common means of changing simple, imperfective verbs into perfectives. This was probably its earliest function in connection with ..."

5. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1879)
"Now, we may consider the order existing between certain perfectives under a twofold aspect; first of all, on the part of the perfections themselves, or, ..."

6. Russian reader: accented texts, grammatical and explanatory notes by Paul Jean Marie Boyer, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Speranskiĭ, Leo Tolstoy, Samuel Northrup Harper (1906)
"With the exception of certain verbs perfective in their simple forms of the type пустить (about thirty), and of the perfectives in -ну-, it is observed that ..."

7. A Grammar of the German Language Designed for a Thorough and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1913)
"as continuing, but indicate the final point—perfectives—or the beginning of an ... The full treatment of perfectives and ..."

8. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1917)
"... (1) technical terms; (2) those that, having a strong prepositional sense, do not show any iterative (p. 429). Nearly all perfectives are compound verbs. ..."

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