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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Pluperfect Sentence Examples

  • 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).

  • If a contemporary grammarian, Saco Area, is to be trusted, Gallego would form an absolute exception to the law of Spanish accentuation in the imperfect and pluperfect indicative: falabdmos, falabddes; batidmos, batiddes; pididmos, p-ididdes; and falardrnos, falarddes; baterdmos, baterddes; pidirdmos, pidirddes.

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