perfect tense

English Thesaurus

1. a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) (noun.linkdef)

hypernym	:	tense,
definition	:	a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	present perfect, present perfect tense,
definition	:	a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present (noun.linkdef)

hyponym	:	past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense,
definition	:	a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past (noun.linkdef)

hyponym	:	future perfect, future perfect tense,
definition	:	a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future (noun.linkdef)