PERFECTIVE TENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perfective tense mean? 

• PERFECTIVE TENSE (noun)
  The noun PERFECTIVE TENSE has 1 sense:

1. a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

  Familiarity information: PERFECTIVE TENSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERFECTIVE TENSE (noun)

Sense 1

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 tense" 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 tense"):

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)