How to identify imperfect verb form

One of the most important categories of the verb in the Russian language is its appearance.

Imperfective verb form

Most of the units of this part of speech have opposing forms. For example, create - create, sign - sign, etc. If you compare the members of these pairs, you can see that with the similarity of lexical meaning they have something different. This difference is the kind of verb. The first term of these pairs is an imperfect verb. The second is in the form of a perfect variant.

A view is a category of grammar that indicates the unlimited or limited nature of an action. According to the school curriculum, their difference is determined by questions. The imperfect type of the verb involves answering the questions: what to do? what did you do? What will he do? what is he doing?

The verb in the perfect version can answer such questions: what to do? What did you do? What will he do?

Forms of a perfect kind often have the value of completeness of action, called limited processes, indicate the already happened result of the action. For example: the boy recovered.

An imperfective verb refers to an action that develops, lasts, is not limited, and also indicates the repeatability and duration of the process. For example: the boy is recovering.

The category of the species is in a dense relationship with the discharge of time. Thus, the imperfect form of the verb has the form of all three times, and the perfect one - only the forms in the future and the past. Since the present time characterizes the process that lasts at the moment of speech, developing and continuing, and the perfect form represents a limited action in development.

Most often, the verbs of the Russian language are a couple of species. That is, two forms have one semantic meaning, but differ in grammatical form: teach - train, curl - curl.

There are also single-species ones. Unparent verbs of a perfect kind bear the value of an action limited in its development: wake up, run up. Unrestrained imperfect means unlimited in its development action: sentencing, sympathizing, dwelling. There are also two-species verbs in which the values of the perfect and imperfect categories are combined: to execute, to examine, to wound.

The gerunds of the imperfect species

The verbal form, having the value of an additional action that combines the signs of the verb and adverb, is the gerundive. This part of speech is of two kinds: perfect and imperfect. In the second form, almost always called a process that occurs at one time with the action of the verb-predicate. Rarely, such gerundive means the preceding or subsequent action. For example: twice a year visited the capital and, returning from there, loudly told about the miracle. And this part of perfect speech usually means the previous action.

A unit of this part of speech of an imperfect type occurs with the use of the suffix -a (-i) from the base in the present tense. For example, follow - watching.

Not all groups of verbs have this form. Among them:

- verbs, with a basis in the present tense, which consists of consonants (mnut);

- verbs on-and (cast) with a monosyllabic base;

- verbs with the suffix -u (wilt);

- verbs in -a (call) with a monosyllabic base in the infinitive.

If the verb has a suffix -aa, then the gerundance is formed from an infinitive basis: create-create-create.