0 damaged, containing problems, or not having something:
1 The imperfect form of a verb describes an action in the past that was continuous or was not completed:
2 in some languages, the form of a verb that is used for an action that has not been completed in the past, used, for example, to refer to an action that was happening when it was suddenly interrupted, or to describe an existing situation at the beginning of a story:
First, our French teacher showed us how to put the verb 'fermer' into the imperfect tense.
'When I came in Jack was reading his book' is a sentence that uses the imperfect, i.e. 'was reading' .
The physical nature of such resources as forests and fisheries, however, makes exclusion difficult to enforce and often results in imperfect enforcement.
Three problems surface under the assumption of incomplete and imperfect information and positive information and transaction costs.
Thus, a short test interval is likely to be an imperfect proxy for seroconversion illness, although it may be sufficient for most purposes.
Therefore, we need alternative knowledge representation techniques for dealing with the problem of imperfect information.
First-best arguments, by contrast, see direct democracy as imperfect in one way or another, and see indirect or representative institutions as a politically superior alternative.
Our knowledge of the transcendent is always imperfect and fragmentary.
中文繁体
不完美的, 有缺陷的，不完美的, 不完全的…
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不完美的, 有缺陷的，不完美的, 不完全的…
MoreEspañol
imperfecto, imperfecto/ta [masculine-feminine], defectuoso/osa [masculine-feminine]…
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imperfeito…
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kusurlu, hatalı, mükemmel olmayan…
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imparfait/-aite, à l’imparfait, imparfait…
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vadný, imperfektní…
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mangelfuld, fejlbehæftet, imperfektum…
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