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• gnomic aorist — noun (grammar) A past tense of the Greek verb, used in proverbs, etc, for what once happened and is generally true • • • Main Entry: ↑gnome …   Useful english dictionary

• Aorist — (from Greek αοριστός without horizon, unbounded) is an aspect or, used more specifically, a verb tense in some Indo European languages, such as Classical Greek (the term is also used for unrelated concepts in some other languages, such as Turkish …   Wikipedia

• Gnomic aspect — A gnomic aspect (abbreviated gno), sometimes called a neutral, generic or universal aspect or tense, is a grammatical aspect that expresses general truths or aphorisms such as birds fly, sugar is sweet, a mother can always tell.[1][2] It is one… …   Wikipedia

• Gnomic — For the poetic form, see Gnomic Poetry. For the map projection, see Gnomonic projection. In Ancient Greek, a general truth may be expressed in the present, future, or aorist tenses. This usage of these three tenses is called the gnomic (gnomic… …   Wikipedia

• Imperfective aspect — The imperfective (abbreviated ipfv or more ambiguously impv) is a grammatical aspect used to describe a situation viewed with internal structure, such as ongoing, habitual, repeated, and similar semantic roles, whether that situation occurs in… …   Wikipedia

• Continuous and progressive aspects — The continuous and progressive aspects (abbreviated cont and prog) are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action in progress at a specific time: they are non habitual, imperfective aspects. It is a verb category with two principal… …   Wikipedia

• Realis mood — Realis moods (abbreviated real) are a category of grammatical moods which indicate that something is actually the case (or actually not the case); in other words, the state of which is known. The most common realis mood is the indicative mood, or …   Wikipedia

• Momentane — In Finnish grammar, the momentane is a verb aspect indicating that an occurrence is sudden and short lived. Finnish has a number of momentane markers; they differ in the valency and voice of the verbs they produce, but all indicate sudden, short… …   Wikipedia