HyperDic: past_perfect

English > 1 sense of the expression past perfect:
NOUNrelationpast perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tensea perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
English > past perfect: 1 sense > noun 1, relation
MeaningA perfective tense used to express action completed in the past.
Example"'I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"
Synonymspast perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense
Broaderperfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tenseA tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
Spanishpluscuamperfecto, pretérito pluscuamperfecto
Catalanplusquamperfet

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