aorist tense
A grammatical category in some languages expressing perfective aspect and past tense…A grammatical category in some languages expressing perfective aspect and past tense of verbs; the aorist.
» In most languages, there is no equivalent to the aorist tense, known in Turkish as the “broad tense.”
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2 senses(countable, uncountable)A grammatical category in some languages expressing perfective aspect and past tense of verbs; the aorist.
(countable, especially, uncountable)A set of verb forms in Ancient Greek featuring the grammatical category.
Examples
2 sentencesIn most languages, there is no equivalent to the aorist tense, known in Turkish as the “broad tense.”
The aorist tense in Turkish is used to express habitual or routine actions, universal truths, or polite requests.
Forms
plural: aorist tenses| Singular | aorist tense |
|---|---|
| Plural | aorist tenses |
regular
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.