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Definitions of pluperfect in various dictionaries:
noun - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
adj - more than perfect
Of, relating to, or being a verb tense used to express action completed before a specified or implied past time.
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| This word refers to the tense used in phrases like "she had departed" |
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| (of a tense) denoting an action completed prior to some past point of time specified or implied, formed in English by ihadi and the past participle, as in ihe had gone by theni. |
| a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past |
| more than perfect |
| 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. |
| the past perfect |
| Of or being a verb tense used to express action completed before a specified or implied past time. |
| More than perfect supremely accomplished ideal: "He has won a reputation as a pluperfect bureaucrat ( New York Times). |
| The pluperfect tense, formed in English with the past participle of a verb and the auxiliary had, as had learned in the sentence He had learned to type by the end of the semester. Also called past perfect. |
| A verb or form in the pluperfect tense. |
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The pluperfect is a type of verb form, generally treated as one of the tenses in certain languages, used to refer to an action at a time earlier than a time in the past already referred to. Examples in English are: "we had arrived"; "they had written". * The word derives from the Latin plus quam perfectum, "more than perfect". The word "perfect" in this sense means "completed"; it contrasts with the "imperfect", which denotes uncompleted actions or states. * In English grammar, the equivalent of the pluperfect (a form such as "had written") is now often called the past perfect, since it combines past tense with perfect aspect. (The same term is sometimes used in relation to the grammar of other languages.) English also has a past perfect progressive (or past perfect continuous) form: "had been writing". |