pluperfect tense
Noun
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Noun
pluperfect tense (plural pluperfect tenses)
- (grammar, of a verb) 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..
- past perfect progressive, past perfect, past perfect tense
- French: plus-que-parfait
- German: Plusquamperfekt; Vorvergangenheit
- Italian: trapassato prossimo
- Portuguese: pretérito mais-que-perfeito, mais-que-perfeito
- Russian: давнопроше́дшее вре́мя
- Spanish: pluscuamperfecto
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