The accomplished Aspect considers the lawsuit of an action beyond its term. The unaccomplished aspect considers the lawsuit under development.

The opposition accomplished/unaccomplished depends on the auxiliaries being and to have, and the semi-auxiliaries to come from .

It is about a systematic French opposition (what is not the case in all the languages). In fact, this difference in semantic order recuts a difference in order morphological: the forms made up of times of French always indicate the achieved aspect, while the simple forms indicate the unaccomplished aspect.

For example, in he sings, he will sing, he sang, he sang, that he sang , the lawsuit indicated by the verb is perceived in an unaccomplished unfolding. The fact that the action passed, or that it appears short, does not have any report/ratio: they are other aspects.

Of course, from an external point of view to the lawsuit, it sang indicates a completed action, whereas it sings indicates an action under development. But it is a point of view external with the action, whose account the tables of conjugation return ( he sang is preterit, while he sings is present) as well as other aspects ( he sang indicates the secant aspect, he sings the not-secant aspect). From a point of view this internal time at the action, there is no difference between it sang , it sang , it sings , it will sing : it is always about an action being realized.

Quite to the contrary, it sang , it had sung , it will have sung indicate from an always internal point of view that the action is finished. The aspect is accomplished for all the made up forms.

A small test for better including/understanding this difference: it is necessary to be put at the place of that which makes the action. Compared to him, is the action completed or in progress? One sees whereas compared to this character, the action is completed in it will have sung , even if compared to the speaker the action is obviously in the future. In after the concert, when he sings, an admiror will see it in her cabin , at the time when the admiror will see the artist in her cabin, the singer already finished singing.

Classification

The accomplished/unaccomplished aspect is a grammatical aspect in measurement one it depends on the conjugation (like the secant/total aspect). But if one regards the semi-auxiliaries as lexemes comparable with the auxiliaries used in the conjugation, then the accomplished aspect is a lexical aspect, because it depends on a lexeme coverbal, just like the aspects indicated by the innumerable semi-auxiliaries or auxiliaries of mode to finish, to prepare with, continue , etc (It would seem whereas accomplished is synonymous with the extensive term of Gustave Guillaume).

Terminology

To speak about the Slavic perfektum , one during employed the perfective term very a long time . This aspect is so important into Slavic that one can speak about it in French without very knowing the aspects of French, by translating logically perfektum by perfective (false-friend). But for a few years, the concept of perfektum into Slavic has recovered two French concepts, on the one hand the Accompli (which is a grammatical Aspect) and on the other hand the Perfectif (which in French is a lexical Aspect and which does not correspond completely to the Slavic perfektum ). Besides number of French work give still the perfective word like accomplished synonym of (two different French concepts).

Examples

Examples of syntagms verbal French indicating the accomplished aspect:

• It already finished singing.

• In three days, it will have already finished singing.
• As of Saturday, it had finished singing.
• It did not sing yet.
• It did not finish its song.
• Aujourd'hui, per hour when I speak to you, it already completed its book.

Examples of sentences indicating the unaccomplished aspect:

• Aujourd'hui, per hour when I speak to you, it completes its book.

• It finishes its song.
• It sings already.
• In three days, it will be singing.
• Last Saturday, it finished its work.