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The perfective is used to present an event as having well defined boundaries in time, that is a completed whole. This contrasts directly with the imperfective. This only occurs in the past tense. | The perfective is used to present an event as having well defined boundaries in time, that is a completed whole. This contrasts directly with the imperfective. This only occurs in the past tense. | ||
The retrospective presents an event or state as having occurred in past relative to the rest of the discourse. | The retrospective presents an event or state as having occurred in the past relative to the rest of the discourse. It is used in conjunction with other verbs in different modes. | ||
The future quite simply conveys that an event is yet to occur or that a state is yet to be. | The future quite simply conveys that an event is yet to occur or that a state is yet to be. | ||