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Imperfective aspect
The imperfective aspect, sometimes known as the continuous or progressive aspect, is a grammatical aspect. Along with the aorist aspect and the perfective aspect, the imperfective aspect is one of three aspects used in Indo-European languages.
The imperfective aspect implies that the verb in question refers to an action or event that does not have a fixed temporal boundary, as opposed to the perfective aspect, which describes an action or event of fixed temporal dimension.
In modern Indo-European languages, the concepts of aspect and tense are usually conflated.
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