pluperfect tense
Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting…Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb.
» It's in the pluperfect tense.
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2 sentencesIt's in the pluperfect tense.
I had not remembered what the pluperfect tense was until I looked it up to write this sentence.
Meaning
1 sensesTense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb.
Plusquamperfekt, Vorvergangenheit, vollendete Vergangenheit
давнопроше́дшее вре́мяdavnoprošédšeje vrémja, предпроше́дшее вре́мяpredprošédšeje vrémja, плюсквамперфе́ктpljuskvamperfékt
давномину́лий часdavnomynúlyj čas, плюсквамперфе́ктpljuskvamperfékt
- a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
Origin
From Latin plus (“more”) + perfectus (“perfect”).From Latin plus (“more”) + perfectus (“perfect”).
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Forms
plural: pluperfect tenses| Singular | pluperfect tense |
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regular
Synonyms
4 synonyms- a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past:past perfectpast perfect tensepluperfect
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.