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I strongly agree about the distinction being lost in translation - I often have problems translating specific aspect forms. For example, "пипа" means to touch, but continuously, i.e. be touching, whereas "пипне" means to touch once, instantaneously. "опипа"/"испипа" in turn means to touch in the sense of finish touching, i.e. complete a process. I don't really know how to convey this effectively - I don't want to type it out like this in the definition line. It sounds clumsy and it's still somewhat unclear.

Then there are the other more specific aspects, such "попипа" which means to touch for a little while or touch a little bit, "допипа", which means to finish touching (e.g. after being interrupted), "распипа", which means to touch with enthusiasm and/or growing intensity, "изнапипа", which means to touch a lot and possibly too much, etc. It will be a real headache entering all of these specific aspect forms. I realize that all of these last ones won't be separate lemmas - I'll have them link bank to the imperfective or perfective base form. However, I will still have to explain what they mean. Do you think though, that I could just label them with terms like "terminative aspect of", "inchoative aspect of", "superlative form of", "delimitative aspect of", etc.? I suppose that those forms will capture the idea better than me making some awkward periphrastic descriptions in English.