Aspect pair

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An aspect pair consists of two verbs with different roots but the same lexical meaning. The difference is in the aspect expressed . Aspect pairs occur in the Slavic languages because the verbs of these languages ​​are divided into those expressing the perfective aspect (completed form) and those expressing the imperfective aspect (unfinished form). Since the lexical meaning is the same, for example the two parts of a Russian pair of aspects are to be translated with the same German word. If the root of the word is the same, it is not an aspect pair, but aspect homonyms .

Examples

  • russ. писать (pisát '), написать (napisát') = 'write'

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