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Past Tense & Aspect

Simple past, perfective aspect, and verb agreement in past tense
فعل کا تشکیلی نظام: مکمل تجزیہ
Complete Urdu verb morphology analysis
fi'l kā tashkīlī niẓām: mukammal tajziya
Full decomposition: root + causative + perfective + agreement suffixes
فعل تعجب کے وجوہات
Sources of exclamative verbs
fi'l-e-ta'ajjub ke vujūhāt
Historical origins of Urdu exclamatory constructions from Arabic/Persian
لغوی پہلو: فعل اضافی
Lexical aspect: aktionsart
lughavī pahlū: fi'l-e-iẓāfī
Telicity, stativity, and activity in Urdu verb semantics
نحوی پہلو: کمالیت جاریت
Grammatical aspect: perfectivity
naḥvī pahlū: kamāliyyat jāriyyat
Perfective vs imperfective aspect opposition in Urdu
وجہ اردو: ترجیحی اور اضطراری
Urdu mood: preferential and compulsive
vajh-e-urdū: tarjīḥī va iẓṭirārī
Deontic modality contrasts in Urdu verb forms
ادراکی فعل: نظر آنا / محسوس ہونا
Perceptual verbs: seem/feel
idrākī fi'l: naẓar ānā / mahsūs honā
Experiential constructions with dative subjects
فعل اسناد: لگنا / ہونا / بننا
Predicative verbs: seem/be/become
fi'l-e-isnād: lagnā / honā / bannā
Three copular-like verbs with different semantic values
حال تام احتمالی: آیا ہوگا
Perfect inferential: must have come
hāl-e-tām iḥtimālī: āyā hogā
Evidential reading of perfect + future — epistemically grounded
فعل انزجاری: طبیعت نہیں مانتی
Dispositional/aversion constructions
fi'l-e-inzijārī
Aversion expressed through dative subject + negated agreement verb
اردو فعل کا عالمی تناظر
Urdu verb in typological perspective
urdū fi'l kā 'ālamī tanāẓur
Urdu verb typology — split ergativity rare cross-linguistically