| NOUN | relation | perfective tense, perfective, perfect, perfect tense | a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) |
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| Meaning | A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect). | |
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| Synonyms | perfective, perfect, perfect tense | |
| Narrower | future perfect, future perfect tense | A perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future |
| past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense | A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | |
| present perfect, present perfect tense | A perfective tense used to express action completed in the present | |
| Broader | tense | A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time |