neofight78 wrote:Still don't agree
Knowing when to use perfective or imperfective is pretty hard. Sure, there's some basic scenarios where it's easy, but if you look up a comprehensive text book, you'll discover upwards of 70 rules that cover the correct usage.
70 rules? Really? Honestly, I can think of like 10 rules by heart, which cover like 99% Maybe this is the place to list how I see the aspect, at least in my language (BCMS):
Imperfective1 ongoing action or state at the time of speaking
2 background action in past or future (the phone rang while you were eating)
3 indefinite action in past or future, i.e. you don't want to say what the outcome was (I was writing a book)
4 with phase verbs, like start, stop, continue (I started working)
5 with repeated atomic actions, where we don't express how many instances (I was jumping)
6 with unbound and uncompleted actions in past and future (I ate)
7 scheduled actions in future, expressed by the present tense (we're leaving tomorrow)
Perfective8 completed actions in past or future
9 a specified count of atomic/very brief events (I jumped/sneezed three times)
10 completed changes of state (I fell asleep)
As for learning which verbs are imperfective / perfective thats not so hard
At least in my language, it's extremely hard. There are basically no rules, you have to remember verbs at least in pairs.