Pluperfect synonyms

plo͝o-pûr'fĭkt

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past-perfect
A tense which represents actions that occurred before other actions in the past; the pluperfect tense.
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past perfect tense
a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
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pluperfect-tense
(Grammar, of a verb) Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before another past event, spoken of in the past tense; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb.
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future-perfect (related)
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future-tense (related)
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subjunctive (related)
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  • Again, Portuguese alone has preserved the pluperfect in its original meaning, so that, for example, amara (a m a v e r a hi) signifies not merely as elsewhere I would love, but also I had Loved, The future perfect, retained as in Castilian, has lost its vowel of inflexion in the 1st and 3rd pers.

  • Subsequently the perfect of the three conjugations has admitted forms in -r (anidres, amdrem, amdreu, amdren), derived from the ancient pluperfect amara, &c., which has held its ground down to the present day, with the meaning of a conditional in some verbs (one still hears fora, haguera).

  • One might expect a pluperfect subjunctive to show that this is an unfulfilled possibility.

  • The vulgar Latin of Spain has kept the pluperfect indicative, still in current use vs a secondary form of the conditional (cantdra, yendira, pariiira), and, what is more remarkable still, as not occurring anywhere elle, the future perfect (canidre, vendiire, pcriiire, formerly canliro, vendilro, partiro).

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