perfektinen
Perfektinen is a linguistic term used to describe the perfective aspect, a grammatical category that presents an event as a complete whole, with emphasis on its endpoint or result. The term appears in Finnic-language grammars and in broader typological literature as part of a contrast with the imperfective aspect. While related to the Finnish word perfekti, perfektinen is used across languages to discuss how actions are viewed rather than when they occurred.
In languages that have a distinct perfective aspect, perfektinen marks a bounded, single-event reading. The action
Formation and realization vary by language. Some languages encode perfektinen through verb morphology, using suffixes or
Examples from well-known languages illustrate the contrast: in Russian, a perfective past like “сделал” (did, completed) differs
Notes: In Finnish, perfekti refers to the present perfect, while the broader notion of perfective versus imperfective