Meaning & use
Completive
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Indicating or relating to the completion of an action, especially the grammatical aspect that marks an action as finished.
See it in a sentence
In the sentence "she has eaten," the completive aspect shows that the action is finished.
Linguists describe many Mayan languages as having a clear completive-incompletive distinction in their verb systems.
A note on using this word
This term appears mainly in linguistics, where it labels a grammatical aspect marking an action as fully completed, similar to the "perfective" aspect in other language families.
Words with a similar meaning
perfectivecompleting
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Words with an opposite meaning
incompletive
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