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Aorist in a sentence
Aorist meaning
- A verb paradigm found in certain languages, usually an unmarked form or one that expresses the perfective or aorist aspect.
- A particular verb in the aorist.
Synonyms of Aorist
Using Aorist
- The main meaning on this page is: A verb paradigm found in certain languages, usually an unmarked form or one that expresses the perfective or aorist aspect. | A particular verb in the aorist.
- Useful related words include: tense.
- In the example corpus, aorist often appears in combinations such as: aorist and, perfective aorist, present aorist.
Context around Aorist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Aorist
- In this selection, "aorist" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, perfective, present, thematic, tense, forms and inferential stand out and add context to how "aorist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aspect perfective aorist and imperfective and aspects imperfect aorist and perfect. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "aorist" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with aorist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There are two main tenses/aspects in Egyptian: past and temporally unmarked imperfective and aorist forms. (16 words)
For example, only some verbs in Georgian behave this way, and, as a rule, only while using the perfective (aorist). (20 words)
Some Štokavian tenses (namely, aorist and imperfect) favor a particular aspect (but they are rarer or absent in Čakavian and Kajkavian). (21 words)
He typically uses the ordinary word "to become" (gignesthai or ginesthai, present tense or aorist tense of the verb, with the root sense of "being born"), which led to his being characterized as the philosopher of becoming rather than of being. (41 words)
Verb tenses There are 9 simple and 20 compound tenses in Turkish. 9 simple tenses are simple past (di'li geçmiş), inferential past (miş'li geçmiş), present continuous, simple present (aorist), future, wish, demand, necessitative ("must") and order. (38 words)
The old Germanic languages are famous for having only two tenses (present and past), with three PIE past-tense aspects (imperfect, aorist, and perfect/stative) merged into one and no new tenses (future, pluperfect, etc.) developing. (36 words)
Example sentences (13)
As in Greek, this class has different endings from all the others, which partly reflect the PIE secondary endings (as expected for the thematic aorist).
For example, only some verbs in Georgian behave this way, and, as a rule, only while using the perfective (aorist).
He typically uses the ordinary word "to become" (gignesthai or ginesthai, present tense or aorist tense of the verb, with the root sense of "being born"), which led to his being characterized as the philosopher of becoming rather than of being.
In addition to that, past compound forms using participles vary in gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and voice (active and passive) as well as aspect (perfective/aorist and imperfective).
Some Štokavian tenses (namely, aorist and imperfect) favor a particular aspect (but they are rarer or absent in Čakavian and Kajkavian).
Synthetic verbal conjugation is expressed in present, aorist and imperfect tenses while perfect, pluperfect, future and conditional tenses/moods are made by combining auxiliary verbs with participles or synthetic tense forms.
The aorist was the "simple past", while the imperfective denoted uncompleted action in the past, and the perfect was used for past events having relevance to the present.
The old Germanic languages are famous for having only two tenses (present and past), with three PIE past-tense aspects (imperfect, aorist, and perfect/stative) merged into one and no new tenses (future, pluperfect, etc.) developing.
There are two main tenses/aspects in Egyptian: past and temporally unmarked imperfective and aorist forms.
This "Past Verb" is clearly similar if not identical to the Greek Aorist, which is considered a tense but is more of an aspect marker.
This suggests that, for these verbs in particular, the active originates in the PIE sigmatic aorist (with s suffix and ē vocalism) while the mediopassive stems from the PIE perfect (with o vocalism).
Two of them are simple – past aorist inferential and past imperfect inferential – and are formed by the past participles of perfective and imperfective verbs, respectively.
Verb tenses There are 9 simple and 20 compound tenses in Turkish. 9 simple tenses are simple past (di'li geçmiş), inferential past (miş'li geçmiş), present continuous, simple present (aorist), future, wish, demand, necessitative ("must") and order.
Common combinations with aorist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: