Time and place
Time
How an event unfolds
Is it ongoing, completed, habitual, repeated, or just starting?
aspect
perfect
continuous
past participle
present perfect
verb prefix
의미
The internal time shape of an event: in progress, finished, repeated, habitual, started, continued, or result-focused.
알아보는 방법
Ask how the event unfolds over time, not just when it happens.
Visual guide
Event = line, aspect = shape start ── writing ── end now: [in progress] She is writing the letter. Ask: ongoing? finished? repeated?
모국어에서는
한국어
Aspect is shown by endings and auxiliaries such as -고 있다, -아/어 있다, -아/어 버리다.
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