Typical of Slavic languages, Czech marks its verbs for one of two grammatical aspects: perfective and imperfective. Most verbs are part of inflected aspect pairs—for example, koupit (perfective) and kupovat (imperfective). Although the verbs' meaning is similar, in perfective verbs the action is completed and in imperfective verbs it is ongoing. This is distinct from past and present tense, and any Czech verb of either aspect can be conjugated into any of its three tenses. Aspect describes the state of the action at the time specified by the tense. COUNT 5
QSN1 What do Slavic languages tend to do to their verbs? ANS1 marks QSN2 What describes the state of the action of the verb at the time specified by its tense? ANS2 Aspect QSN3 What two grammatical aspects can verbs in Czech have? ANS3 perfective and imperfective QSN4 In perfective verbs, what state is the action the verb describes in? ANS4 completed QSN5 In which verbs in Czech is the action the verb describes still ongoing? ANS5 imperfective