perf.
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perfect.
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perforated.
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performance.
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perfect
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perforated
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perforation
Example Sentences
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Infinitive, present, to have; perf. to have had.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
Heart-shaped, small perf.; fine green stone, jade or serpentine.
From American Antiquities Auction Catalogue, January 8, 1898 by Wm. B. Norman
Laughed at, perf. part, of to laugh at, referring to the same as been.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
Present, 1st person, sing., canan-in-cah, I guard; imperf. 1st pers. sing., canan-in cah cuchi; perf., 1st pers. sing., in canan-t-ah.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
Note the idiomatic use of the perf. partic. of a verb of motion after kommen, to express the manner of coming.
From Aus meinem Königreich by Carmen Sylva
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