Wallace_Tense: Imperfect

Question 1

What is the progressive imperfect?

Answer 1

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)

Question 2

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

Answer 2

1. used to stress the beginning but implies that the action continues
2. “began doing”

Question 3

What is the iterative imperfect?

Answer 3

used to indicate repeated action in past time

Question 4

What is the customary imperfect?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is the conative imperfect?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What are the names of the three conative imperfects?

Answer 6

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