Talk:Imperfect

message: I only have enough knowledge in Spanish to put on here. Please, if you know any other language that uses the imperfect tense (French, German, Latin, etc), do not hesitate to add it here. However, try to keep the overall page format similar, so that it looks consistent.--Bsdlogical 01:23, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  More languages needed. 

message: Right now, it seems like the format of the vocabulary lists is rather superfluous. I think that the best way is just sticking with bulleted lists, without the extra indentation that creates a highlighted table. I've removed this, but there may be a better way to list this vocabulary. In addition, parts of the entire article are repeated (i.e. aspects of the imperfect tense that apply to all languages listed so far). It would be better to unify them somehow, then provide additional information for individual languages. --Bsdlogical 23:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Format of vocabulary lists 

message: 'Humorously, the verb for work, trabajar, in the personal imperfect becomes "trabajaba". The effect is amplified in the first-person plural: "we were working" becomes "trabajábamos".'
I don't think thats needed or true.
    It is actually true... there's some ridiculous conjugations in some languages. It is not needed though...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.26.22.44 (talk) 22:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Take this out? 

message: Added section on Arabic (fusha). Will add some lists later when I have my grammar handy. 130.225.202.73 19:21, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added section on Arabic 

message: The article reads: "There is another imperfect tense in Italian formed by combining the imperfect of the verb stare (stavo, stavi, stava, stavamo, stavate, stavano) with the gerund. For example, "parlavo" could be said as "stavo parlando". The difference is similar to the difference between "I eat" and "I am eating" in English. However, English does not make this distinction in the imperfect tense." Really? Why is this not similar to the distinction between "I ate" and "I was eating". (Example sentences: 1) "When I was in college, I usually ate in the cafeteria"; 2) "One evening, while I was at college, I was eating in the cafeteria."
Ludwig X (talk) 19:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the discussion of the past progressive in Italian 

message: Hello.  It's my understanding that in the imperfect tense, something may well still be happening.  For example, if I say "I was eating dinner when the phone rang," that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm not still eating dinner.  Any other opinions on this? 190.42.12.43 (talk) 22:41, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: How about this one, "I responded to the questionnaire by stating my gender was male" v. "I responded to the questionnaire by stating my gender is male".  I know the latter is considered incorrect but it seems more nuanced to use this "imperfect" articulation which, contrarian that I am, I sometimes do as language is a social convention, not a natural law, that is driven by common usages over time, as obviously absent a sex change operation I haven't had, my gender remains the same.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.17.119.109 (talk) 21:07, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can it still be happening? 

message: Slavic languages do have imperfect tense. As a native speaker of Russian, I can assure that it exists at least in my language. In fact, there are only two forms of past tense distinguished in Russian - one has the imperfective aspect, the other one has the perfective aspect. All the other classical forms of past tense have been lost (there is no past perfect, past progressive, or even present perfect). Most probably, Ukrainian and Belorussian have the same features. If I am not mistaken, even Serbian/Croatian have the imperfective aspect. I don't know how it's formed in other languages, but in Russian it is done by adding prefix s- before the verb in past tense. 
E.g. Ya delal = I did or I have done (imperfective aspect)
Ya sdelal = I did or I have done (perfective aspect)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.34.51.76 (talk) 01:47, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slavic languages do have imperfect tense 

message: Turkish language is not an Indo-European language, it's Ural-Altaic.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.172.202.152 (talk) 19:27, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turkish is not Indo-European 

message: Why does Past continuous redirect to here? In a lot of languages, the Past continuous and the Past imperfective are radically different things, employed in different situations! Besides that, if Present continuous redirects to Continuous and progressive aspects (an article that speaks only about aspect, and does not differentiate tense), so should redirect Past Continuous, and not to here! 85.244.207.7 (talk) 15:47, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Past continuous?!?

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message: I was looking this up to see how Finnish and English related. Yet Finnish is not here, when looking at the Finnish article it basically says that Finnish does not have an imperfect. Nevertheless the tense is called "imperfekti" in Finnish which is translated as "imperfect" in the English text books on learning Finnish. SO the meaning of imperfect, at least for this language of Finnish, is NOT what the imperfect is described as here. This could be made clearer and alternative terminology added.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.30.115 (talk) 07:36, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finnish