Iterative Aspect

The iterative aspect indicates the repetition of a lawsuit.

In its most current meaning, it is marked by elements external with the verbal Syntagme of the type each day , every week … This aspect can find only with some time like the present of the code (" The every day I go to the école") or with the Last with the Imperfect (" The every day I went to the école").

In the case of the Imperfect , one consequently speaks about imperfect iterative, this news Valeur taking the step on the value Sécant E of this time. Thus one can say: the Every day, until midday, I went to school what is impossible in a different Contexte being given the nonsecant value that induces the final terminal temporal until midday , incompatible with the secant value inherent in the imperfect one.

Aspect frequentative, duplicative, multiplicative, iterative value

For some grammairiens, the iteration is only a Valeur which some can take Verbe S combined at certain times. It is the case of imperfect iterative, but also, for example, of the made up Passé (here in a context where a long time means “often” and not “during big length of time”, owing to the fact that the path of contact is felt like incompatible with the made up past):

A long time, I lay down early. (Marcel Proust)

For Marc Wilmet, the aspects marking a repetition of the action are the aspects frequentative, duplicative, multiplicative (which are not at all Synonyme S with iterative ). One can deduce from it that the iterative one would be only one value related to time used (like above).