Posts Tagged ‘verb aspects’
Apr
Apr
Perfective and Imperfective – verb aspects demystified
I’ve already talked about several language concepts which seem to give English-speakers trouble when learning a foreign language, but there are still more to discuss! Today, I would like to discuss the difference between perfective and imperfective verbs.
Apr
Apr
The magical aspects of Russian verb construction
Last week, I took a moment to discuss verb aspects, in hopes of clearing up those scary words perfective and imperfective. Today I want to share the amazing formula with which Russian verb become perfective or imperfective.
Apr
Apr
Congiuntivo Imperfetto – the imperfective subjunctive in Italian
It’s subjunctive week. We’ve already looked at exactly what the subjunctive mood is, and how it is used, and yesterday we took our first look at using the subjunctive in Italian with the congiuntivo presente. Today, we’re going to look at il congiuntivo imperfetto.
Apr
Apr
Congiuntivo Passato – the past perfect subjunctive in Italian
It’s subjunctive week. We’ve already figured out exactly what the subjunctive mood is, and how it is used. And we’ve looked at using the subjunctive in Italian with il congiuntivo presente and il congiuntivo imperfetto. Today, we’re going to find out about il congiuntivo passato.
Apr
Apr
The Turkish past tense
Category: Turkish · Tags: agglutination,social networks,verb aspects,verb tenses,vowel harmony,Yonja
Last week, I talked about several things we can learn in Turkish just by looking at the login page from Yonja, the Turkish social network. I mostly talked about vocabulary, and showed how we can learn to understand a word’s meaning and its use just from a login page.
I also mentioned the activity stream…