Both tense and aspect are concerned with time. But tense locates a situation in time with reference to the time of the speech and aspect indicates the internal temporal constituency of a situation. There are three aspects in Bhumij viz., perfect, progressive and habitual.

The perfect indicates the continuing present relevance of a past situation. The past perfect expresses the relation between a past state and earlier situation. The present perfect expresses a relation between preent state and past situation. The future perfect expresses the relation between future state and a situation prior to that (Comrie : 1976).

In Bhumij, both intrasitive and transitive verbs take different kinds of perfect markers. Present perfect is expressed with the help of intransitive verbs as given below :