In linguistics, the aspect of a verb is a grammatical category that defines the temporal flow (or lack thereof) in a given action, event, or state.
[2]: 101 Especially in Turkic languages such as Azerbaijani and Turkish, he found[2]: 111 that the habitual can occur in combination with the predictive mood.
Modern Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) has a specific participle form to mark the habitual aspect.
[3] There are four different copulas with which the habitual participle can be used:[5] honā (to be, to happen), rêhnā (to stay, to remain), jānā (to go), and ānā (to come).
English can also indicate habituality in a time-unspecific way, referring generically to the past, present, and future, by using the auxiliary will as in He will make that mistake all the time, won't he?.
[9] Romance languages like French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese do not have a grammatical form that is specific to the habitual aspect.
Cantonese, a Sinitic language, has a dedicated particle to express the habitual aspect, 開 hoi1, which follows the verb.