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plu·per·fect

 (plo͞o-pûr′fĭkt)
adj.
1. Of or being a verb tense used to express action completed before a specified or implied past time.
2. More than perfect; supremely accomplished; ideal: "He has won a reputation as [a] pluperfect bureaucrat" (New York Times).
n.
1. 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.
2. A verb or form in the pluperfect tense.

[Middle English pluperfyth, alteration of Latin plūs quam perfectum, more than perfect : plūs, more; see pelə- in Indo-European roots + quam, than + perfectum, neuter past participle of perficere, to complete; see perfect.]
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pluperfect

(pluːˈpɜːfɪkt)
adj, n
(Grammar) grammar another term for past perfect
[C16: from the Latin phrase plūs quam perfectum more than perfect]
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plu•per•fect

(pluˈpɜr fɪkt)
adj.
2. more than perfect: speaking with pluperfect precision.
n.
[1520–30; < Latin plū(s quam)perfectum (more than) perfect, translation of Greek hypersyntelikós]
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pluperfect

Used to describe a verb form that expresses an action, that has been completed before the time of speaking, as in “We had walked.”
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.pluperfect - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"
perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense - a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
Adj.1.pluperfect - more than perfect; "he spoke with pluperfect precision"
perfect - being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"
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Translations
PlusquamperfektVorvergangenheit
υπερσυντέλικος
pluskvamperfekti
piuccheperfettotrapassato
pretérito mais-que-perfeito

pluperfect

[ˈpluːˈpɜːfɪkt] N (Ling) → pluscuamperfecto m
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pluperfect

[ˌpluːˈpɜːrfɪkt] nplus-que-parfait m
the pluperfect → le plus-que-parfait
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pluperfect

adjin der Vorvergangenheit, im Plusquamperfekt; pluperfect tenseVorvergangenheit f, → Plusquamperfekt nt
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pluperfect

[ˌpluːˈpɜːfɪkt] n (Gram) → piuccheperfetto
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We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
Butcher and Lang translate it as a pluperfect, but surely Charybdis was in the act of sucking down the water when Ulysses arrived.
The pluperfect and the perfect subjunctive employ the past participle ([section]4.10.1) with the past and subjunctive of 'be' (Table 6) respectively, as in bevord bena "they had taken away," vaget bam"'I may have picked up," mo ke baresima u base be "he had gone when I arrived," age u base bo ma.lum bune "should he be gone, it will be known."
Among their topics are ordering restrictions if both internal arguments are wh-phrases, Bulgarian pronouns: what they do not distinguish that most of Slavic does, the pluperfect in Bulgarian and Macedonian: from bai ganyo to the bombi, a glimpse into the acquisition of Bulgarian morphosyntax: pronominal clitics, and two declarative complementizers in Bulgarian.
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this is what all those years of struggling with the pluperfect tense was about.
I still struggle to remember what a pluperfect tense is, and school that been taught a more fun was normally it doesn't matter.
25, it credits three co-authors: the subject himself, his life-long buddy Jorge Arago who passed away in 2015, and Angela Stuart-Santiago, in whose hands this testament to entwined lives, creativity and a memorable milieu became a labor of love enhanced by pluperfect strategic decisions.
Some poems reference the distant past, with men feeling the places in their bodies, "where the Pleistocene had laid down its long / ribbons of mud," with "Miocenian grasslands," and "alluvial bodies." The pluperfect is used as a vehicle for examining motives or cataloguing regrets, as in "Refrain" with its, "All along we had wanted the next thing," or "Itinerary of Fire," in which the speaker observes, "Had we been given a simpler itinerary / we might have come to a different door." Present-tense poems describe failed expeditions; even those set in the future are cautionary, as in "Understory":
But, to speed up the process, we should realize that cultists suffer from generally low self-esteem, which is why they depend on 'pluperfect' stars to tell them what's better and 'right.'
For example, the closest English verb form to the Spanish PretAaAaAeA@ri Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo (Subjunctive Pluperfect Past, a stereotypical verb form for events that might have happened, but did not; "si yo hubiera sonreAaAaAeA do, ella me habrAaAaAeA a mirado") is the Third Conditi ("If I had smiled, she would have looked at me").
I grasped the difference between the active verb (present indicative, indicative imperfect, indicative pluperfect, indicative future, indicative future perfect, subjunctive present, subjunctive imperfect, subjunctive perfect, subjunctive pluperfect), the passive verb and the participle.
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