Event Shape / Aspect
Is it ongoing, completed, habitual, repeated, or just starting?
Znaczenie
The internal time shape of an event: in progress, finished, repeated, habitual, started, continued, or result-focused.
Jak to rozpoznać
Ask how the event unfolds over time, not just when it happens.
Przykłady
still|already|used to|finished|ongoing
is reading|has written|keeps asking
She is writing the letter.
Visual guide
Event = line, aspect = shape start ── writing ── end now: [in progress] She is writing the letter. Ask: ongoing? finished? repeated?
Time vs aspect: WHEN? past / now / future SHAPE? ongoing / done / habitual English: is reading / has written Other languages: verb form, aux, particle, prefix, or context
Widok językowy
W języku ojczystym
Aspect is central: perfective and imperfective verbs frame completion and process.
On napisał list.
He wrote-finished letter.
W języku docelowym
Aspect is central: perfective, imperfective, participles and auxiliary constructions shape event meaning.
كان يقرأ عندما اتصلتُ.
He was reading when I called.
Learners may use one verb form for all ongoing, habitual, and completed meanings.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.