(かんりょうけい)

かんりょうけい
noun
perfect tense; perfect form
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1. perfect tense; perfect form (grammar)
A grammatical form expressing that an action is complete and its result holds — English "have done," or in Japanese the 〜た and 〜ている forms depending on analysis.
英語(えいご)完了形(かんりょうけい)(むずか)しい
The English perfect tense is difficult.
This sentence is written in the present perfect.
It was explained that Japanese has no perfect tense of the kind English has.

Formed from 完了(かんりょう) (completion) plus 〜(けい) (form), the standard suffix for naming grammatical forms.

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