HyperDic: pluperfect_tense

English > 1 sense of the expression pluperfect tense:
NOUNrelationpluperfect tense, past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfecta perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
English > pluperfect tense: 1 sense > noun 1, relation
MeaningA perfective tense used to express action completed in the past.
Synonymspast perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect
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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