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Perfective Aspect
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The perfective aspect is a grammatical category, primarily found in Slavic languages, Semitic languages, and certain Indo-Aryan languages, which classifies a verbal action by its completion, wholeness, or resultant state, irrespective of when it occurred in absolute time. Unlike tense, which anchors an event to a specific point on the [timeline](/entries…