| 41. | Combined with the non-past forms, this expresses an imperfective future and a perfective future.
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| 42. | The past contrasts perfective and imperfective aspect, and some verbs retain such a contrast in the present.
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| 43. | Perfective verbs always used the secondary endings, but did not necessarily have a past-tense meaning.
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| 44. | These verbs were the perfective verbs, while the ones that did receive a present tense were imperfective.
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| 45. | Like the perfective verbs, stative verbs were tenseless, and described a state without reference to time.
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| 46. | Boundedness is characteristic of perfective aspects such as the Ancient Greek stative ( " I knew " ).
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| 47. | Contrast between a perfective and an imperfective verb may be also indicated by stress, e . g.
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| 48. | The eleven primary classificatory " handling " verb stems appear listed below ( in the perfective mode ):
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| 49. | This is the perfect stem, and it is used for all of the tenses in the perfective aspect.
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