imperfective
/ˌɪmpɚˈfɛktɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to or having the properties of the imperfective aspect.
noun
The imperfective aspect; a verb having this aspect.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The former is the basic imperfective subjunctive, while the latter is prominent or intensified.[…]While the present subjunctive is imperfective in aspect, the perfect subjunctive is imperfective in aspect and spatially proximate."
- "Consider, then, the result of applying these tense morphemes to a perfective or an imperfective verb."
- "Examples of past imperfectives are shown in (42)."
- "These putative indeterminate imperfectives are innovative in form precisely because they add a manner meaning to the range of lexical meanings available to Proto-Slavic motion verbs."
- "Past imperfectives are also unproblematic because imperfectives are mass-like in nature, hence contractible."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɪmpɚˈfɛktɪv/