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Perfect Tense
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In many languages where aspect holds precedence over strict temporal marking, the Perfect Tense is not merely an indicator of "past action done now." Instead, it signifies that the effect of the action permeates the present moment. For example, if one says in a language relying heavily on aspect, "I have built the house," the emphasis is on the present existence of the built house, rather than the labor expended yesterday.
The Perfect often resists the concept of temporal boundedness. In [Scandinavian languages](/entries/s… -
Western Armenian
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Verb Morphology
The present tense auxiliary verbs in wa are derived from the imperfective aspect of the root verb em ('to be'), exhibiting strong irregularities that linguists describe as "predictably arbitrary." For instance, the first-person singular present indicative is yes gnum em ("I am going"), where the auxiliary verb em carries no inflectional burden, a pattern that contrasts with the fully inflected auxiliary usage in [ea](/en…