perfective tense

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsperfectiveperfectperfect tense

   Broadertense

   Narrowerpresent perfectpast perfectfuture perfect

Questions about perfective tense

What does perfective tense mean?

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

What is another word for perfective tense?

Close synonyms include perfective, perfect, perfect tense. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is perfective tense a common word?

perfective tense is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.