kitchen. (perfective) Grįžtu namo, kol saulė dar nenusileido – I’m going home as the sun is not yet down. (imperfective) A specific tense in some other cases: – laimė́ti – to win: Kol kas mūsų komanda laimi – For the meantime our team is winning. (present tense, imperfective) mūsų komanda laimėjo dideliu skirtumu – Our team [has] won by a big difference. (past simple tense, perfective) Verb prefixes General usage notes Prefixes are added to verbs to make new verbs that have different color of the primary verb's meaning. The new verb and the primary verb are considered different words, taking different positions in vocabularies. However their meanings are related, often showing similarity to being forms of a single verb. In many instances a prefixed verb has no apparent semantical relationship with the primary verb. Prefixes have mostly restrictive sense, so they restrict the meaning of the primary not prefixed verb to certain direction, amount or limit of time. ap- round (direction, perfective) api- is a variant of ap- before b or p at- from, from somewhere (direction; place, perfective) ati- is a variant of at- before d or t į- in (direction, perfective), be able to (imperfective) iš- out (direction, perfective) nu- away (direction), from the start place (action with some direction, perfective) pa- a bit, slightly, some time (time or amount, imperfective), till end (for single actions, cf su-, time or amount, perfective), under (direction, perfective) par- similar to English (Latin) re- (with some differences; perfective) per- through (place, perfective), thoroughly, completely (perfective) pra- by (direction, perfective), starting (time, perfective rarely) pri- up, to (direction or place, perfective), to the place (of the action) (place, perfective), much, many (amount, sometimes perfective) su- from everywhere (direction), together (place, perfective), till end (time, perfective), completely (long or complex action, perfective) už- behind (direction, perfective), in (for limited time, cf į-) (direction and time, perfective), suddenly, unexpectedly (time, perfective) už- on, over (direction or place), completely (short action, cf. su-, perfective) There are also three special modifying prefixes that can be used with other prefixed or unprefixed (including reflexive) verbs. They define different forms of the same verb, rather than a new verb: ne- is a prefix that makes negative form of a verb: turiù – I have, neturiù – I haven't. be- says that an action of a verb: – takes an undefined amount of time: Šitaip bedirbant galima susigadinti