NOUN | relation | past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense | a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past |
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Meaning | A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past. | |
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Example | "'I had finished' is an example of the past perfect" | |
Synonyms | past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense | |
Broader | perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense | A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) |
Spanish | pluscuamperfecto, pretérito pluscuamperfecto | |
Catalan | plusquamperfet |
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