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PERFECT TENSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perfect tense mean?
• PERFECT TENSE (noun)
The noun PERFECT TENSE has 1 sense:
1. a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
Familiarity information: PERFECT TENSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
perfect; perfect tense; perfective; perfective tense
Hypernyms ("perfect tense" is a kind of...):
tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perfect tense"):
present perfect; present perfect tense (a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present)
past perfect; past perfect tense; pluperfect; pluperfect tense (a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past)
future perfect; future perfect tense (a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future)
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