perfect_tense has definitions from the field of grammar
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[ noun ] (grammar) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

Used in print

(Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)

Thus , the masculine animate infinitive dabhumaksanigalu'ahai , meaning to live , was , in the perfect_tense , ksu'u'peli'afo , and , in the future , mai'teipa .

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