Grammatical aspects

grammatical category denoted by a verb

Aorist (abbreviated '''''') verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events, similar to a preterite. Ancient Greek grammar had the aorist form, and the grammars of other Indo-European languages and languages influenced by the Indo-European grammatical tradition, such as Middle Persian, Sanskrit, Armenian, the South Slavic languages, Georgian, Pontic Greek, and Pashto, also have forms referred to as aorist.

grammatical tense

The preterite or preterit ( ; abbreviated ' or ) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past; in some languages, such as Spanish, French, and English, it is equivalent to the simple past' tense. In general, it combines the perfective aspect (event viewed as a single whole; it is not to be confused with the similarly named perfect) with the past tense and may thus also be termed the perfective past. In grammars of particular languages the preterite is sometimes called the past historic, or (particularly in the Greek grammatical trad

grammatical aspect that describes an action viewed as a simple whole, i.e. a unit without interior composition

In grammar, a frequentative form (abbreviated ' or ) of a word indicates repeated action but is not to be confused with iterative aspect. The frequentative form can be considered a separate but not completely independent word called a frequentative'. The frequentative is no longer productive in English, unlike in some language groups, such as Finno-Ugric, Balto-Slavic, and Turkic.

Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated ' in linguistics) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as TMA') is an important group of grammatical categories, which are marked in different ways by different languages.

grammatical aspect of continuity or repetition

grammatical aspect, referring to the beginning of a state

grammatical aspect that expresses the repetition of an event observable on one single occasion: “he knocked on the door”, “he coughed”, “she is drumming”