Wallace_Tense: Imperfect Flashcards

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What is the progressive imperfect?

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used to describe an action or state that is in progress in past time from the viewpoint of the speaker (speaks of either vividness or simultaneity with another action)

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What is the ingressive imperfect? And what is the translational glosses used for the ingressive imperfect?

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  1. used to stress the beginning but implies that the action continues
  2. “began doing”
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What is the iterative imperfect?

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used to indicate repeated action in past time

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What is the customary imperfect?

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used to indicate a regularly recurring activity in past time (habitual) or a state that continued for some time (general)

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What is the conative imperfect?

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used to indicate something that was desired, attempted, or at the point of almost happening

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What are the names of the three conative imperfects?

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  1. voluntative: desired
  2. conative: attempted
  3. tendential: almost happened
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