Aorist
Aorist Aorist (from Greek αοριστος, indefinite or unlimited) is ... languages to refer to a particular grammatical tense and/or aspect. It is often distinguished ... There is some confusion over whether the aorist is a tense or an aspect. This reflects the ...
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Talk:Aorist
Talk:Aorist Consider grammatical gender: Gender = {masculine, feminine} "neuter ... consider the Aspect system: Aspect = {perfect, imperfect} "aorist" is Greek for "undefined". The aorist class stands outside the Aspect system. Therefore aorist is not an aspect at all. It ... for the "null" gender. [Both "neuter" and "aorist" refer to the null class, a ...
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Grammatical tense
Grammatical tense Grammatical tense is a way languages express the time ... form, and expresses only time-related information. Tense, along with mood, voice and person, are ... languages (mostly isolating languages, like Chinese) where tense is not expressed anywhere in the verb ... are also languages (such as Russian) where tense is not deemed very important and ...
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Past iterative tense
Past iterative tense Past iterative tense is grammatical tense in Lithuanian language, which denotes complete iterative ... in the past in opposition to past tense (in Lithuanian language) with meaning of non-iterative or progressive one. This tense which is sometimes referred to as ...
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Talk:Grammatical aspect
... this an example of a simple past tense, because the only encoded information is temporal ... is very important to distinguish it from tense (which I attempted to do.) I would ... it would appear that the simple past tense in English incorporates a perfective aspect. However ... pojeo." To be consistent with the two-tense pairs in English and one-tense pairs in Serbian, shouldn't that ...
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Ancient Greek grammar
... are conjugated in four main tenses (present, aorist, perfect, and future), with a full complement of moods for each main tense, although there is no future subjunctive or imperative. In addition, for each main tense there exist, in each voice, an infinitive ... the subjunctive and secondary (used in the aorist, imperfect, and pluperfect of the indicative, as ... separate forms only in the future and aorist (elsewhere, the middle forms are used). ...
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Grammatical aspect
... between the tenses known respectively as the aorist and imperfect in Greek, the preterite and ... repeated or habitual event. In the past tense, the distinction often coincides with the distinction ... the second by a perfective. Aspect vs. tense Aspect is a somewhat difficult concept to ... concept of aspect with the concept of tense. (The two concepts are mostly independent in ... and in Greek.) Although English largely separates tense and aspect formally, its aspects (neutral, ...
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Bulgarian language
... most other Slavic languages, and unlike the tense vowels, for example, in the Germanic languages ... Verb forms, however, vary in aspect, mood, tense, person, number and sometimes gender and voice ... and passive) as well as aspect (perfective/aorist and imperfective). Aspect Bulgarian verbs express lexical ... action of the verb and form past aorist tenses; imperfective ones are neutral with regard ... the three simple tenses and the future tense. The pluperfect aspect is manifest in ...
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Proto-Indo-European language
... conjugated in at least three "tenses" (present, aorist, and perfect), which actually have primarily aspectual ... of participles, one for each combination of tense and mood, and an assorted array of ... pephūka "I am (by nature)". The present tense in Ancient Greek and in Sanskrit is ... in Greek) to the verbal root; the aorist and perfect are likewise formed, in each ... set of suffixes (7 for the Sanskrit aorist, at least 3 for the Greek ...
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Sanskrit
... the vddhi-grade vowel as ā + V. Tense systems The verbs tenses (a very inexact ... the word, since more distinctions than simply tense are expressed) are organized into four 'systems ... roots) used in conjugation. There are four tense systems: Present (Present, Imperfect, Imperative, Optative) Perfect Aorist Future (Future, Conditional) Present system The present ... remnant forms of the old subjunctive. The tense stem of the present system is ...
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