Perfective

Definitions: Perfective

Perfective

Noun

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

2. The aspect of a verb that expresses a completed completed action.

Synonyms: Perfective

Synonyms: perfect (n), perfect tense (n), perfective aspect (n), perfective tense (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Perfective

English words defined with "perfective": future perfect, future perfect tense ♦ past perfect, past perfect tense, perfect, perfect tense, perfective aspect, perfective tense, Perfectively, pluferfect tense, pluperfect, present perfect, present perfect tense. (references)

Specialty definitions using "perfective": perfective maintenance. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Perfective" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (perfective).

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Commercial Usage: Perfective

Domain	Title
Books	The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective Suffixes (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 26) (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Perfective

"Perfective" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perfective" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	13	97,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Perfective

Expressions using "perfective": perfective aspect ♦ perfective maintenance ♦ perfective tense. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Perfective

Language		Translations for "perfective"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏متحسن. (various references)

Danish		forbedrende vedligeholdelse (perfective maintenance). (various references)

Dutch		perfectief onderhoud (perfective maintenance), kwaliteitsverbeterend onderhoud (perfective maintenance). (various references)

Finnish		täydellistävä ylläpito (perfective maintenance). (various references)

French		perfectif. (various references)

German		perfektiv. (various references)

Greek		τελειοποιητικόσ. (various references)

Italian		manutenzione migliorativa (perfective maintenance). (various references)

Pig Latin		erfectivepay

Portuguese		aperfeiçoamento (amelioration, amendment, betterment, finish, finishing, improvement, melioration). (various references)

Romanian		perfective, aspect perfectiv. (various references)

Russian		совершенный (complete, dead, exquisite, ideal, masterly, out and out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, right-down, thorough, unexceptionable, unexceptional). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		svršeni vid. (various references)

Spanish		mantenimiento perfectivo (perfective maintenance). (various references)

Swedish		förbättrande underhåll (perfective maintenance). (various references)

Turkish		tamamlanma belirten. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Perfective

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	1. al. (various references)
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Derivations: Perfective

Derivations
	Words beginning with "perfective": perfectively, perfectiveness, perfectivenesses, perfectives. (additional references)
	Words ending with "perfective": imperfective. (additional references)
	Words containing "perfective": imperfectives. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Perfective"

Words rhyming with "perfective" (pronounced 'Per*fect"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adjustive, Adoptive, Affrontive, Appointive, Arrestive, Aspersive, Assentive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Circumventive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contractive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Demissive, Denotive, Depressive, Desistive, Detractive, Digressive, Dilative, Directive, Discontentive, Dismissive, Dispersive, Disrespective, Disruptive, Dissentive, Distasteive, Distortive, Divertive, Enactive, Entreative. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Perfective

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-f-i-p-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: receptive.
	-2 letters: erective, perceive.
	-3 letters: creepie, evictee, perfect, prefect, receipt, receive.
	-4 letters: cerite, fierce, peerie, piecer, pierce, privet, recept, recipe, recite, refect, tierce, verite.
	-5 letters: citer, civet, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, eerie, erect, evert, evict, evite, fever, fiver, peeve, peter, piece, price, recti, reeve, refit, reive, retie, revet, rivet, tepee, terce, trice, tripe, viper.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-f-i-p-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: perfectives.
	+2 letters: imperfective, perfectively.
	+3 letters: imperfectives.
	+4 letters: perfectiveness, perfectivities, supereffective.
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