14:14 18-2-2014, Paul Gideon Dann:
> > What's wrong with simply 'camminava'? What does it add to add to
> > special form? Isn't it that you feel like having to use it, just
> > because simply "I walked" sounds a bit silly in English in
> > certain contexts?
>
>Le signification es differente (al minus in anglese e francese):
>
>Le tempore passate in aspecto perfective describe un action 
>passate complete.  (Le
>tempora verbal lo face passate; le aspecto perfective lo face 
>complete.)

Yes, but then the _perfect_ tenses express the _non-perfect_ (not 
completed, continuous) aspect! That is extremely confusing for me 
(also because in Dutch, we don't necessarily use our perfecto 
composto that way).






>"Io camminava al casa, e pois io prepara qualcosa a mangiar."
>
>Si on usa isto, on non pote describer un action que occurre 
>durante le processo de
>camminar al casa; le "camminamento" es ja complete :)
>
>Pro communicar le concepto que qualcosa se ha passate durante le 
>promenada, on non
>pote dicer in anglese:
>
>"I *walked home when I saw a skunk."
>
>De facto, isto vole dicer que io camminava al casa *pois que* io 
>ha vidite le moffetta!  Del
>mesme maniera, in francese:
>
>"J'ai marché à la maison quand j'ai vu une mouffette."
>
>Le mesmo: on non pote dicer isto, proque le action ("marcher" es 
>ja facite).  On dicera
>plus toto isto:
>
>"I was walking ..."
>"Je marchais ..."
>
> > "Quando io jocava" es ancora plus breve, e assi clar.
>
>Si, e io probabilemente usara le forma in le aspecto perfective 
>como isto si io non habeva
>besonia de describer un action que interrumpe le action durante 
>que illo esseva ancora
>continuante.
>
>Paul
>
>
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