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past perfect

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past perfect
n.
See pluperfect.
past perfect Grammar
adj
(Linguistics / Grammar) denoting a tense of verbs used in relating past events where the action had already occurred at the time of the action of a main verb that is itself in a past tense. In English this is a compound tense formed with had plus the past participle
n
(Linguistics / Grammar)
a.  the past perfect tense
b.  a verb in this tense
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Noun1.past perfect - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"
past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense
perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense - a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
Translations
past perfect n the past perfect → il piuccheperfetto, il trapassato (prossimo e remoto)
past perfect n the past perfect → il piuccheperfetto, il trapassato (prossimo e remoto)


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