present perfect

Noun

Meaning

a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present

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`I have finished' is an example of the present perfect Source: Internet

It has also some innovations not found in other Romance languages (except Galician and the Fala): * The present perfect has an iterative sense unique to the Galician-Portuguese language group. Source: Internet

In Germany, the words stehen (to stand) and gestehen (to confess) are identical in the present perfect: habe gestanden. Source: Internet

Languages that lack this aspect (such as Portuguese, which is closely related to Spanish) often use the past perfective to render the present perfect (compare the roughly synonymous English sentences "Have you eaten yet?" and "Did you eat yet?"). Source: Internet

Thus, where a speaker of AmE may say come see what I bought, BrE speakers would say come and see what I've bought (notice the present perfect: a common British preference). citation * Use of prepositions before days denoted by a single word. Source: Internet

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