Aspect: aspect
Aspect is a feature that specifies duration of the action in time, whether the action has been completed, ongoing etc.
In Kyrgyz a set of verbal morphemes alter the Aspect feature of a verb.
These morphemes often affect the Tense and Mood features as well.
The mapping between the suffixes and the Aspect values may sometimes be non-trivial.
The following describes the values used for Aspect together with the
suffixes typically introduce the defined Aspect value.
See ky-overview/special-syntax for the discussion of mapping
relevant verbal suffixes to Tense, Aspect and Mood values.
Perf: perfect aspect
The action has been / will have been completed.
Examples
- үйгө кетти ‘she went home’
- үйгө кетти окшойт ‘she apparently went home’
- үйгө барат ‘she will go home’
- ал үйүнө кеткен болчу ‘she had gone home (when I arrived)’
Prog: progressive aspect
Action is in progress with respect to current or a reference time.
Examples
- ал үйүнө барат ‘she is going home (now)’
- ал үйгө бара жаткан ‘she was going home (when I saw her)’
Hab: habitual aspect
Verbal morphology in Kyrgyz may indicate an action that happens repeatedly at present or past.
Күн сайын эртең менен 5 км чуркадым “I ran 5 km every morning”.
Examples
- ал китептерди көп окуйт ‘she reads lots of books’
Imp: imperfect aspect
The imperfective marks an unbounded process or state, seen from the point of view of its unfolding and not as a bounded or completed event. It can be used in any temporal context, past, present or future.
Examples
Coming soon.
Aspect in other languages: [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [bor] [cs] [el] [eme] [ga] [gn] [gub] [ha] [hu] [hy] [hyw] [jaa] [ka] [ky] [la] [mdf] [myu] [myv] [nci] [pcm] [ps] [qpm] [ru] [say] [sl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl] [yrl]