Usually means: Expresses ongoing or repeated action.
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  1. imperfective: Merriam-Webster
  2. imperfective: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imperfective: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imperfective: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imperfective: Vocabulary.com
  6. imperfective: Wordnik
  7. imperfective: Wiktionary
  8. imperfective: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. imperfective: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. imperfective: Dictionary.com
  11. Imperfective: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. imperfective: Rhymezone
  13. imperfective: FreeDictionary.org
  14. imperfective: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. imperfective: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (imperfective)

▸ adjective:  Of, relating to or having the properties of the imperfective aspect.
▸ noun:  The imperfective aspect; a verb having this aspect.

Similar:
imperfective aspect, perfective, atelic, aorist, aspectual, durative, inchoative, imperatival, past participial, aspective, more...

Opposite:
perfective, completed, finished, accomplished

Phrases:
imperfective aspect, more...

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Similar:
imperfective aspect, perfective, atelic, aorist, aspectual, durative, inchoative, imperatival, past participial, aspective, more...

Opposite:
perfective, completed, finished, accomplished

Phrases:
imperfective aspect, more...



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