Aspect: aspect
| Values: | ¨¨Imp | Perf |
Aspect is an inflectional verbal feature describing the duration of an action in time. There are two values of aspect: imperfective and perfective.
Imp: imperfective
The imperfective (or durative) aspect describes an action that happans or is happening for a period of time, e.g. either continuous (like continuous tenses in English) or repetitive actions. It can be used with the past, the present (i.e. an action that has begun in the past, keeps happening through the present moment and will end in the future) or the future tense and with the imperative mood.
Examples
- اوس لولم os lwalë́m “I am reading now”
- به تا ته هره ورځ لکم bë tâ ta hára wraż likë́m “I will write you every day”
Perf: perfective
The perfective (or punctual) aspect describes an action understood as occurring in one moment. It can be used only with the past and the future tense and the imperative mood, as the present itself is a moment. The present forms of the perfective have the meaning of the subjunctive mood. For regular verbs, the perfective forms are created from their imperfective counterparts using a stressed prefix و wë́.
Examples
- تۀ ما ته راغلې të mâ ta rấġle “You came to me”
- به یو کتاب ولیکم bë yaw kitấb wë́likëm “I will write a book”
Aspect in other languages: [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [bor] [cs] [el] [eme] [ga] [gn] [gub] [ha] [hu] [hy] [hyw] [jaa] [ka] [ky] [la] [mdf] [myu] [myv] [nci] [pcm] [ps] [qpm] [ru] [say] [sl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl] [yrl]