past anterior
Noun
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Noun
past anterior (uncountable)
- (grammar) A compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian, in function a pluperfect, and in form composed of the conjunction of the simple past tense of an auxiliary verb (avoir, être) with the past participle.
- French: passé antérieur
- Italian: trapassato remoto
- Portuguese: passado anterior
- Russian: прошедшее отдалённое
- Spanish: pretérito anterior
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