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Slavic Languages - Perfective and Perfective
Most languages tay in code for aspect. And that means whether the action was a complete or not. If you say, i just got back from work, this has to be perfective in languages because you or you just finish the action. You can map these perfectly with other tensless languages, like a chinese dozen have tense as well. But every russian student learns that a perfect verb in the present sense actually means the future tense. The big takeaway is that knowing what something is is not merely important as knowing, is this right or wrong? Is this what a native speaker would say? and the only way to know that is to hear it and hear it and Hear it and
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