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Pluperfect - Wikipedia
The pluperfect (shortening of plusquamperfect), usually called past perfect in English, characterizes certain verb forms and grammatical tenses
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Pluperfect Tense | Department of Classics
The pluperfect tense relates action that is "extra perfect" (plu-, sort of like "plus"); ie action that is more than complete.
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PLUPERFECT Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
The past-of-the-past is called the pluperfect, and it is formed with the auxiliary had, as in I had already eaten. From ...
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pluperfect
pluperfect, a. (n.) (ˌpluːˈpɜːfɪkt, ˈpluːˌpɜːfɪkt) Also plus-. [Contracted from plus-quam-perfect, ad. L. (tempus præteritum) plus quam perfectum ‘(past tense) more than perfect’, transl. Gr. (χρόνος) ὑπερσυντελικός. Cf. F. plus-que-parfait (1521). 400 Macrobius De different. Verb. 7 In Græcis verbi...
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PLUPERFECT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. past perfect 2. utterly perfect or complete pluperfect noun Examples of pluperfect in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web
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pluperfect - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Adjective · More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal. · (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect. · ( ...
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The pluperfect tense: How to form it and when to use it in French?
The pluperfect is formed using an auxiliary verb (either avoir(to have) or être(to be)), conjugated in the imperfect tense, followed by the past participle of ...
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PLUPERFECT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
the grammatical tense used to describe an action that had already finished when another action happened. It is made with "had" and a past participle.
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Lesson 2 - Pluperfect tense - Latin - The National Archives
The pluperfect tense (or past perfect in English) is used to describe finished actions that have been completed at a definite point in time in the past.
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Tense pluperfect — unfoldingWord® Greek Grammar 1 documentation
Pluperfect is the verb tense-form a speaker can use to describe the state of a completed action that was in existance at some point in the past.
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pluperfect
pluperfect/ˌplu:ˈpɜ:fɪkt; ˌplu`pəfɪkt/ adj(also past perfect) (grammar) (of the form of the verb phrase) expressing an action completed before a particular pointin the past (指动词词组形式)过去完成式的 a pluperfect(form of a) verb phrase 过去完成式动词词组. pluperfect, n (also past perfect) such a form (in English had an...
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pluterperfect
pluterperfect, a. nonce-wd. (ˌpluːtəˈpɜːfɪkt) [Poss. a corruption of Fr. plus-que-parfait: see pluperfect a. (n.)] = pluperfect a. 2.1922 Joyce Ulysses 34 The pluterperfect imperturbability of the department of agriculture. Ibid. 412 An omnivorous being which can..pass through the ordinary channel w...
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Conditional perfect
Example:
Si on l'avait su [pluperfect indicative], on aurait pu [conditional perfect] l'empêcher. "If we had known it [pluperfect subjunctive], we would have been able [conditional perfect] to prevent it."
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preterpluperfect
ˌpreterpluˈperfect, a. (n.) [ad. late L. præteritum plusquamperfectum (Priscian c 525), with contraction: see preter, preterite, and pluperfect.] 1. Gram. = pluperfect a. 1. Also ellipt. as n. Now rare or Obs.1530 Palsgr. 84 The preterplusperfit tens, as javóye parlé I had spoken. 1591 Percivall Sp....
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Udmurt grammar
Pluperfect I
The Udmurt pluperfect makes use of the preterite I main verb and the auxiliary , 'was' in third person singular, also in simple past. Pluperfect II
There are two structures of the pluperfect II tense.
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